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I suspect that we will visit remote stars long before FTL travel. But not using corporal travel. Transfer of information is not only possible at lightspeed, we routinely use it already. I think it is more efficient to encode our consious and send it to do some exploration, and back again, than to travel with our whole body.
When I say "encode our consious" I mean some sort of AI that can transfer memories to/from us. That is "all" it takes.
So we'll send some small intelligent probes at a fraction of the lightspeed to distant stars, and when the time comes download the experience. Or we could even send along information about how to rebuild a whole bio-sphere, with enough energy and machinery to get it started.
Who knows, that may be how life here started? I wonder when the download starts ...
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