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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So when you say never, do you mean not in the 'lifetime' of our sun, or?

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not till the heat death of the universe.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I guess I don't trust the human understanding of 'never'. It's more like 'we don't currently believe its possible', which has in the past been unreliable.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

We'd need to break the speed of light, which isn't possible with our current understanding of physics, but who knows.