Comments by "Brandon" (@gravoc857) on "What The Perseverance Rover Found Two Months Later On Mars" video.

@kusalg Humanity has a problem if it wants to become an intergalactic (or even galactic) species. The speed of light is painfully slow on a cosmic scale. It’s not practical to travel even if we could go light speed. Theoretical concepts were developed. Like Warp speed which is 100 times faster than the speed of light. Even warp speed isn’t viable and just simply doesn’t give us the speed to go where we want to go in a reasonable manner. Humanity really needs to find teleportation, unlock wormholes or figure out how to fold space time with gravity. That’s our only real chance at becoming an intergalactic species. If we fail to do that, we’ll most likely end up space nomads. Drifting around our galaxy, generations wasting away in starships.
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@jpthepug3126 Still a short term solution. For example: Our solar system alone has thousands of years of resources. Other stars will be similar. That’s great news for the immediate future of our species. Bad news is it’s not infinite. If we make it to an intersolar species (not quite galactic), we still run into the issue of eventually running out of resources. Which is followed by extinction. Long term survival (into the millions, billions and trillions of years) will require teleportation in one form or another.
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@jpthepug3126 We don’t know what dark matter is. Dark matter engines are a fascinating concept but are entirely theoretical. Anti matter & black hole engines are more likely. We know much more about both of those science concepts than we do dark matter. Our current theory of dark matter is that they are axions or neutrinos that can phase through matter, including the entire planet and star, and possibly even black holes. Unless there’s some force physics we’re unaware of, we’ll unlikely be able to harvest dark matter as energy. We need to learn more about dark matter first though.
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@jpthepug3126 That’s not what anti matter is. Anti matter is matter with a reverse charge. We can create anti matter in labs. Quantum particles make up protons, neutrons and electrons. The charges can be reversed and still exist as a stable particle. The particles cannot interact with their opposite charge or else they release all energy and return to their simplest quantum form. The only reason the universe is filled with matter, is because quantum mechanics made slightly more units of matter than anti matter. We don’t know why that happened, but our best guess is just pure coincidence. Even on a universal scale, 50/50 odds rarely end in an exact 50% percentage. That’s only a mathematical principle that if you have infinite number of rolls, you get to 50%. In reality, a plethora of external forces can lead to say 50.001% or 49.999% even when the odds are perfectly 50/50. That’s why Einstein was so frustrated with quantum mechanics and stated “God does not play dice with the universe”. Which was followed up by an intellectual challenger saying “Don’t tell god what to do”. All these years later, we do know quantum mechanics is a dice roll & it’s a structured chaos beyond pure coincidence. Otherwise 50/50 odds would result in perfect 50/50 rolls. We don’t see that on a universal scale.
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