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Will humans over-extend their ability to communicate?
So I started thinking about where humans could be in a couple hundred if not thousand years.
Obviously we will have reached interstellar travel and be able to colonize planets to our specific liking. So here's where I reached my problem.
Even if we are able to achieve light speed travel (which is highly doubted in the Psychics community) there is no way to be able to communicate at such a speed, so if we were a light year away from the point of origin of the message it would take ridiculously longer for that message to reach the point of ending. Thus making communication useless.
So are we stuck to reside within just the closest stars to Earth? If not just our own Solar System?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you take a look at natural selection, we most likely will not make it that far. We may be the dominant species on earth (and what an accomplish that is), but the universe is a little bit bigger. We will be eaten by green space monsters by 2030.
Also, information travels at the speed of light, so I don't know what you mean when you say "no way to be able to communicate at such a speed." On top of that, you seem like communicating at light speed will help anything. It won't, as it would take a "ridiculously long" time to communicate solar system to solar system even at light speed.