Comment by 🚀 mbays
Re: "Metabolic Suspension Capsule"
Nice. With apologies for the digression: FTL communication in SF always makes me wonder -- can it somehow be squared with special relativity without breaking causality (see "Tachyonic antitelephone")? Is there a plausible loophole, some way Lorentz invariance could break down without contradicting observations?
Jan 05 · 4 months ago
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📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 05 at 23:50:
@mbays That's way outside my wheelhouse. I love math but math doesn't love me. I use Science™ as a catch-all for stuff I know is highly dubious.
📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 05 at 23:54:
and I pressed enter before I was finished. The way FTL communication works, it uses a kind of subspace called the Underlay. Although the speed is instant, the bandwidth is extremely limited. Interplanetary communication looks like 80s BBs's or Gopher, even while planet-wide internetworks are as media-rich as you expect. I might post a story in the sci-fi subspace that goes into more detail.
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Metabolic Suspension Capsule — Missionaries of the Bright Way ply the yawning gulf between stars in search of other sophonts. FTL communication has existed for dozens of millennia, but FTL travel remains illusive, though they can achieve speeds that are a significant fraction of c. While they're very long-lived compared to humans, with an average lifespan of 724 years, they still need a way to live long enough to survive interstellar STL missions. Monkey foxes are incapable of losing...
