sexobon, xoxoxoBruce, footfootfoot, ZenGum, Undertoad, Griff,
Thanks a lot for your comments. I want to know what can be done to make most good effects & least bad effects out of it …
It sounds sadly true …
If that could be realized, the definition of "nation" needs to be reconsidered IMHO. If people can reach to each other in blink of an eye, how can one define a border, country, … ?
The question is: Would be any big corporation interested/able to work on such a subject that could cause extreme military consequences to its locating country? Maybe secretly, however that requires a high courage … :right:
I hope we could contact to an intelligent alien civilization by this mechanism at last; but on the earth, any country could have another country's resources: gas, oil, water, gold, money …! :yelgreedy
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe those damn governments have suppressed many innovations to become public during the past years. The present space technology is pathetic, compared to what potentially that would be able to become … :mad:

A friend of mine pointed out to me that most of the technology we rely on daily are "hand-me-downs" from the military. Things like GPS, night vision, various optics, electronics, etc. are all born in the military.

That may be changing somewhat, as super large corporations are now much stronger, economically, than the government, but on the other hand, most of those corps are in some way related to the military.

I think one of the key things to think about is "What is at the destination?" FTL travel in and of itself may be cool, but after a while "driving around the parking lot" will lose its appeal. Where will one go, what will be there and why would one go back?

Another question I have is what effects will the experience of FTL have on a person's perceptions of reality? How will it change someone's sense of time and of their place in the universe. How will it change someone's sense of "self" or their concept of their spatial relationship.

I know from my own experiences of flying in small aircraft and hot air balloons, that my sense of time passing, my sense of my location and relationship to moving through the area I live changed greatly. Not just from acquiring a new vantage point, but being able to traverse distance at a different pace.

Similar to doing a long distance bike ride, covering a hundred or so miles over ten hours and then getting in a car and driving back over the same route alters your perception of the distance covered. One thing is the faster you move the less you experience of any individual spot; the less you see, smell, hear, etc. You lose detail but gain a better sense of totality. I expect with FTL travel you'd lose so much detail that you'd be approaching complete loss of detail, if there were a true inverse relationship between loss of detail and acquisition of totality (the total picture: Seeing the forest for the trees) then what an FTL traveler would perceive would be perhaps paradigm changing and life altering. Perhaps even putting it on a par with a Kensho experience.

3Foot, it would probably be like an actor moving from their dressing room to the stage.

Need a fence.

http://cellar.org/2010/wormhole.gif

Imagine anchoring one end of a wormhole in Jupiter's atmosphere, allowing us to quickly and cheaply "harvest" abundant hydrogen. No more burning fossil fuels on Earth. How about a factory in Venus' orbit, able to use solar energy and able to dispose of toxic waste in a way that won't ruin our planet, using a wormhole to get its product to market. Wormholes could even be used intra-earth. Want to go to Australia, to hook up with Zengum? You go to the "wormport" and getting to Australia would be instantaneous.

Not if Homeland Security has a say in it. :haha:

Viva Las Vegas!

What terms were you Googling that brought you to this site? This is a continued point of curiosity (what draws individuals to a community).

At least to me, the main goal of FTL is colonizing other earth-like planets & spheres in other stellar systems & galaxies, in addition to finding alien civilizations. Regarding the cosmic distances in the universe, the only solution is going FTL and as long as the mentioned goals would not be reached, its appeal would not be lost, at least to me.
Similar to breaking the sound barrier, one would be able to watch the past events, if he could exceed the light speed, then adjust a strong telescope to a targeted point; it just seemed to me a significant effect.
We are not completely strange with such affairs. For now, you can have access to anyone's info (i.e., text, voice, picture & video) on the earth almost immediately, provided both would have the related cell phones (devices) and numbers. The next step is access to physical existence of each other. We'd used to that IMHO.
There are billions of galaxies in the known universe; each of them having millions or billions of stars, and it is expected there must be a couple of planets rotating around each star, forming a stellar system, like our own Milky Way galaxy & solar system. Now multiply these numbers to find a huge number of the planets we'd have to verify for being worthy of living or contacting their residents. This technology shall make us busy for a long long time! :rotflol:
You're totally right. It can solve the energy crisis. Imagine anchoring one end of a wormhole in a deep point of the earth, so you can extract the internal heat of the earth and use it in a geothermal power plant. To make it more economical, you can avoid installing new complexes. Just take out the facilities of a fossil/nuclear plant from the building, then install the new facilities in the same building and start having green geothermal energy!
Also, almost any public vehicle would not be necessary. The planes, ships, trailers, trains, metros, … anything but a personal car to go out the vacation with the family in the weekend. Replace all of them with the new transporting system! We need to move on as fast as we can:

That's really awesome. I was invited to a scientific conference in the USA about 3 years ago, but the US embassy officer in Turkey didn't issue me a visa because I couldn't prove him I will come back Iran after finishing that conference. We Iranians have plenty of visa problems to travel abroad, so this is a personal motivation for me to make all the people who control others' travels … jobless! :nadkick:

If there is a wormhole technology at work, what does the "Homeland" mean? How would the DHS guys want to stop that? :eyebrow:

I don't remember exactly, there were a few unusual words. The website is online for a long time, has a good number of members, has a suitable Google rank, … so I saved its name & address …

Whoa, just because we can get from here to Mars in a jiffy, doesn't mean we can all start singing Kumbaya and buying each other Cokes. I know damn well if this technology were to become a reality, nation states would closely control it's use for their own benefit. Running down to Home Depot for a wormhole is not in the cards.

That sounds lovely, but just taking carbon out of the earth has caused a world of hurt, that wasn't predicted for a very long time. How do we know what the consequences of moving the heat from the earth's core to the atmosphere are going to be? Will it cause excess cooling of the core, and shrinkage causing massive earthquakes, tsunamis, super volcanoes and prairie dog suicides?

Mass access to teleportation would be cool, but at the same time it would suck. Those remote exotic locations would lose their charm if they were easy to get to and millions of people around the world decided they wanted to go there. I can picture the peak of Mount Everest having a Planet Hollywood on it with an oxygen bar.

The only way you would be able to find a place where you could get away from it all would be if you chose a barren inhospitable location, like the middle of a flat desert in Nevada.

Things like the "suburbs" and "country" would cease to have meaning if you can instantaneously commute from anywhere. Population density would become evenly distributed instead of being centered around cities. Put another way, there would no longer be rural areas, it would all be one big suburb.

What is the speed of dark?

Parking at the Teleporter Terminal would still be a drag.