• Vespair@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Of course, but I’m trying to work within the established framework of the meme here

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        I think it wouldn’t be too unreasonable to suggest hyperintelligent ants could build a vessel the size of a human or larger and travel the Earth with enough speed.

        Some of those ant colonies are larger than people so, seems reasonable enough.

        That’s closer to us exploring our solar system I think, in scale, than it would be for us to explore even the galaxy let alone the whole observable universe let alone the whole universe.

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          Except that a large point of my comment is pointing out the hubris of man, so it’s important to note that ants are not hyperintelligent. They organize and build, but there is a finite limitation to their capability, at least in this and any known previous state of their evolution. Like that we are the most intelligent thing on our little planet doesn’t imply to me that we are not effectively to scale with ants on the cosmic level.

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            The intelligence doesn’t matter. The point is what is physically possible.

            Even if we were hyperintelligent in the same scale as making current ants intelligent enough to build ships to ride the world around in, we’d still have to face the issue of the speed of light being a limiting factor.

            Unless we actually manage to find some of those theorised strange particles which would fit with the math of the warp engine theory.

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              Alright, valid, you’re right, the presented limiting factor in the meme is in fact the SoL and not actually man’s ability to reach it. I concede, cheers.