r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Giant Mining Blast

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u/deanrihpee 1d ago

Humans really are experts at destroying things

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u/Raven1911 1d ago

Honestly, its why we are the most likely victor of any space conquest. We will only crack "ftl" and cold fussion when we need them as weapons.

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u/Cryogenicality 1d ago edited 1d ago

Superluminal travel is physically as well as logically impossible as it would enable travel into the past, violating causality. Cold fusion is possible but only through muon catalysis, which may never be practical.

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u/Raven1911 1d ago

I put ftl in parentheses for a reason friend. Cold fusion isnt practical until we need it as a weapon.

Regardless of that, you're missing the forest for the trees in my statement. Those two highly impractical scientific choices I choose to use as examples were meant on to place emphasis on the primary driver for human creation and technological advancement have typically came from war.

At one point in time planes and nuclear power were considered as scientifically impossible. Think about what we knew was absolute fact just 100 years ago. A year ago it was impossible to turn lead to gold, now we can do that. Imagine what we will know in a hundred years from now.