Approved: Observer | Royal Gansbaai Kingdoms

Voted Yes this magnificent and welcome back marsh!

Observers don't need to be on earth since we have no economic, military or role playing involvement with them, except fluid membership nations like Fornax.
Observership is more symbolic of our friendship with the USNW, for informal/inactive members and for those who do not wish to have a full membership (assoc/member) and just want to show off their CJs.

Fair enough, but Arcacia can't recognise them.

It's nothing personal against the people behind the CJs, it's just a matter of realism.

Daniel: I understand where you are coming from. (I was joking before fyi.) But I agree with Thomas. It's more of a symbolic relationship rather than a functional inter-union thing.

I've thought of communication as a sort of... "hypothetical here" Say earth. They encountered alien life. However transport to the planet is impossible with current technology. However communication, eg radio waves, is possible.

I don't know but just a thought.

Actually, it isn't, and I know of what I speak - I'm an astronomer.

The fastest anything can travel is the speed of light. Faster than light travel is impossible, even for light itself, and radio waves are a form of light.

The closest star to us (apart from the Sun) is Proxima Centauri, which has no planets. It's 4 light years away. That means that a message would take 4 years to go from here to there.

Theoretically, a planet could exist there, though none have been found, It is a red dwarf star with a habitable zone only 0.023-0.054AU from the star. 1AU is the average distance from Earth to the Sun. A planet orbiting Proxima Centauri would have a year only 3.6-14 days long.

All that aside, the only way anything could pass from one point in spacetime to another, avoiding the constraint of the speed of light, would be through a wormhole.

Wormholes are theoretically possible, but so far there is no evidence that they exist and every model of one that has been created by scientists shows that they would be inherently unstable and would collapse as soon as anything, even a massless particle such as a photon, entered one.

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