More unstable fluctuations in the populations of other marine species.

The people in the traffic jam are being equally irritated by the concept of “space”.

We should name them after oil company executives.

We’re bags of bacteria, made up of cells that are bags of mitochondria.

“All I got is one subcutaneous memory chip with a site license for Autodesk?”

Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).

Right—settlements result when both parties agree on the likely outcome of a court case (with the advice of their lawyers).

Trials result when each side’s lawyers convince their clients that the other side’s lawyers have misjudged the likely outcome.

Fred Rogers.

I assume everyone is too good for reddit, until they prove otherwise.

The creation of new Pareto efficient alternatives.

Items would just be sold with enough lead weights stuck on to make the total weight proportional to the market value.

Or that refusing to understand is a valid counterargument.

It seems like you really want someone to tell you there’s a set protocol for all these highly specific scenarios you keep presenting, but they’re all contingent on the human factors you leave out.

In practice it depends more on your relationship with the people involved than on a generic description of their actions.

Viruses, in a sense.

Even moving with 10 times the speed of light, you still take “forward time” to move to your end point.

There’s no such thing as speeds faster than light—the worldlines of objects with such trajectories are called “spacelike” instead of “timelike” for a reason. “Forward” and “backward” time is only defined for events within your light-cone, and trajectories “faster than light” are outside it. Whether events outside your light-cone are in your future or your past are dependent on your current reference frame, which you can change at will by accelerating—so spacelike trajectories have no intrinsic direction with respect to time.

The thing about “moving with FTL from A to B” is that if B is far away, the event at B simultaneous with your departure from A will be highly dependent on A’s reference frame—a shift in A’s velocity will correspond to a shift in B’s timeline equal to (vx/c²)/√(1-v²/c²) (where v is the change in A’s velocity and x is the distance to B). And things are changing velocities with respect to each other all the time (e.g., for objects on earth due to the planet’s revolution and rotation around the sun), so the point in B’s timeline at which you’d arrive would be constantly swinging backward and forward in time.

And the same is true for the return trip: a minor change in B’s reference frame can put your arrival back in A’s timeline at a point before your original departure.

Anytime you move at a different speed, the definition of what time matches your current time shifts throughout the universe by an interval proportional to the distance—even if you’re just driving down the street, the time that matches “now” in your reference frame in a distant galaxy could change by years relative to what it was when you were stationary. Of course, you can’t actually see that happening, so the difference is just theoretical… as long as you can’t teleport to that galaxy faster than light.

But as soon as you have any kind of FTL travel, it’s trivially easy to go back in time by warping back and forth between two moving endpoints.

I.e., “What are your thoughts on people who are against people who are against people who are violently against people?”

Everyone immediately dismisses it as a promotional stunt for Crocs. The only ones who believe them are the Crocs company, who insist that the aliens either pay royalties or compensate them by appearing in advertisements.

Same with “I solved this with a calculator”.

Maybe they’re short on closet space.