stephen voss wrote:

David Woolley wrote:

In article <y0snc.91055$7a5.48783@bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
stephen voss <voss749@bellsouth.net> wrote:

1) If youre going to realistically maintain long term interstellar
communication youre going to have to develop reliable FTL communication...which we cannot currently detect.

The current belief is that FTL *communication* is physically impossible.

Matter moving FTL is impossible under current belief...energy moving faster than light is not impossible, just unproven and undetectable by our current technology.

 Ooh, Ooh, I have something I can add to this discussion!  I read about the experiment of FTL and if I remember correctly, no physical laws were violated, but apparently it is possible to send information faster than light, but not the matter or energy.