The Plausibility of Alien Life

This is incorrect.There is: http://www.designnews.com/...sion_a_Future_Power_Source_.phpThis rest of your points do not match the evidence.ABE: Ninja'dEdited by Larni, : No reason given.

How can the maximum speed of light be faster than the maximum speed of light?Edited by Larni, : Forgot the ?

If you aim at Mars with a laser and it takes the fist photon 3 minutes to hit and then move your aim to Jupiter (say for example Jupiter in 3 light hours away) it will take the first photon 3 hours to arrive.I think the idea you have in your head is a perfectly rigid bar 3 light minutes long that can poke Mars from Earth and then being move to poke something else at a similar distance, thus moving the point faster than the speed of light.The energy required to move the bar through any amount of degrees would increase with the length and the perfect rigidity of the bar is a product of I don't know what engineering.It would not happen.Of course you may not be thinking this.

The beam of light diffuses.Imagine a stream of water firing out of a hose in free fall and vacuum.Now slow down the camera; looks like a solid stream of water, right?Now move the hose 45 degrease to the right.What do you see?That's what happens with a 'stream' of photons.

That's why I stipulated free fall and a vacuum environment.Over 3 light minutes the been will be massively diffuse because there will be not enough individual photons to 'paint' the target line of the beam.You would get a line from Mars to Jupiter (say 3 light minutes apart) with maybe one photon per million miles (the numbers are doubtless wrong but I hope I'm explaining the principal).This would trail along taking 3 hours to arrive.I in no way argue that light bends in this instance. It moves in a straight line at the speed of light. Never faster.

Could be. But the light would still take the same amount of time to reach the new target of the beam and all points in between. No they wouldn't: it's impossible.Well, I still don't think just pointing a laser at another target somehow alters the speed of the beam but I guess I've reached the limit of my knowledge of physics and can't really do anything other than restate my point.So I'd better leave it, too.Edited by Larni, : Clarity.