An Alien Just Like You – Act III Scene 5
ZOOM TO UPSTAGE WINDOW
INT – Day – Mark pokes his head above the window sill.
MARK
You don’t want to miss this Saturday’s episode, you’re going to get a really good view of the main deck. I don’t think you’re going to be disappointed.
Discussion (4) ¬
(repost from future): Actually, that bit about “protecting from external reality effect” is even bigger cheat that FTL engine itself. There are only two possibilities: either your family (outside of ship) WILL grow old during travel, or they will not – and in that case it IS equivalent to FTL and they CAN go faster that broadcast signal.
Actually it really is kind of time travel. You just don’t want someone like Zortic to get too excited about that kind of thinking.
According to general relativity, there’s no difference between FTL and time travel. If you have one, you’ll almost certainly wind up with both.