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Question Would Martial Arts be useful for an intelligent, powerful, quadrupedal animal?
Humans developed martial arts to give themselves an advantage in combat against untrained, but possibly stronger or better-armed opponents. Presumably, martial arts are one way of making up for the fact that we humans have rather pathetic natural combat abilities as compared to other animals our size...
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about 7 years ago
Answer A: What realistic way could limit an FTL drive to only travelling between stars?
Some interpretations of Einstein's field equations allow for FTL by forming a "bubble" of curved space around a ship (check out the Alcubierre drive on Wikipedia). Forming such a bubble would require some exotic matter, which may not play nicely with particles of the solar wind, random bits of debris...
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over 7 years ago