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I think the other way around: we don't have the knowledge or technology to even make a reasonably feasible teleportation theory.

Once we colonize the solar system, the next frontier to explore will be interstellar travel. I think research on faster than light travel will be what brings teleportation to us rather than the other way around.

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I see no reason to think FTL will ever be possible. That FTL is a trope in SF stories doesn't meant it's an aspect of the reality, it just means that it enables one to write more interesting stories.

With our current knowledge and technology, you are right, but nobody knows what we might discover in the future.

Even if FTL were indeed impossible, I think pursuing it would bring interesting discoveries and technologies.

Replace FTL with witchcraft and the argument would be identical.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

So.. invent faster than light travel, go to a distant planet rotating around a distant star, to find a bunch of friendly advanced aliens, that will bequeath us some advanced teleportation technology?

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