Imagine if the Chiefs won the SB the year you moved to Delta Epsilon VII, and they only got 30-year delayed TV transmissions...you'd have to wait ANOTHER 30 years for a Chiefs SB. :D

Ya'll go ahead. When you are all gone, the rest of us will have more room.

Diggin' the extra space ----------Husker's dogs

Will this new planet have a Starbucks?

Ever hear of this thing called "special relativity"? "Speed of light" ring a bell? I don't see the word "ansible" anywhere.

only if the people on the new planet want one and support one

that goes for any and all businesses etc ... you would be on the ground floor of establishing a new world culture.

No.

You realize we'd probably have to have lightspeed capability to get to another hospitable planet?

OOF! Sorry...

In that case, I am totally there, No hesitation.

Not if the journey takes 30 years.

And even if we could move ships faster than lights, that doesn't mean we could communicate faster than light. Best case scenario in that case would be some kind of intergalactic pony express, but I'm guessing we're dealing with a one-shot trip so expensive that we're not going to get weekly supply drops.

Oh, that. Yeah that was like...separate from my other comment. :)

SIMPLEX3

In tribute to your Avatar...All-Right!

Fug no. I'll stay here.

Paquino slave trade?

;)

Where do I sign up?

I remember reading about a sub-atomic particle that comes in matched pairs. Regardless of distance between the two items in a pair they are oppositely charged, one positive, one negative. When one is changed the other changes instantly. Using those you could have instant communication at any distance.

I thought it was quarks, but some cursory research on the 'net doesn't support that.