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Question About FTL Travel
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If a ship was using an FTL engine like Alcubierre warp drives or slipspace or hyperdrives, something like that, would it be possible to crash into an object like a planet or a star that is in its way? Would the ship's crew be able to detect the obstacle fast enough? Would an AI be fast enough to do that instead?

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Possible but unspeakably unlikely. Space is incredibly big and stars follow extremely well understood patterns you could calculate on paper if need be.

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