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Starship Musings: Warping to the Stars
Centauri Dreams ^
| 5/2/13
| Kevin Long via Paul Gilster
Posted on 05/03/2013 1:03:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Ha! We all know how the design of the Starship Enterprise
really came to be... Namely, Roddenberry, none too gently, demanding fellow that was, gave the team the order. One of the interns, immediately feeling the heat, made his way to the bathroom, thinking, "Oh, my gosh! How am I ever going to design a darn starship? I don't have a clue about starships! I'm an artist!" Then, bending over the bathroom sink to splash some cold water onto his face, he froze, furrowed his brow, cocked his head to the side like a poodle that just heard his first squeaky toy, and -BOOM!- it came to him, like a bolt out of the blue:
To: LibWhacker
A galaxy class sink! I want one.
To: LibWhacker
perhaps there are only two remaining. The first would be some variation on the Zoo hypothesis, and the second is that we are indeed alone on this pale blue dot called Earth.People always leave out the other option... we are the first. Someone has to be the first advanced civilization. It could be us.
/johnny
To: LibWhacker
Truly inspired at all levels including the plots which to this day drive thought and introspection: time paradoxes (what if someone existed or didn't exist) and good intentions gone bad; a sterile war where the suffering of war are not experienced and war continues on for centuries; etc. etc.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:20:54 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: LibWhacker
D*mn,
That was good!
Impressive, most impressive.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:22:39 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: JRandomFreeper
People always leave out the other option... we are the first. Someone has to be the first advanced civilization. It could be us.
Yup. We don't want or need to find life we can talk to. We need life we can eat.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:23:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
I'm good with a glass of wine and stimulating intellectual conversation before dinner. I don't see the two as mutually exclusive. ;)
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
That seems to be the premise of the Dune series. There are no aliens in that series. All of known space is populated by varieties of humanity.
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posted on
05/03/2013 2:29:21 PM PDT
by
Daveinyork
(."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
To: Daveinyork
There are no aliens in that series. Umm... sandworms? Granted, they aren't sentient...
/johnny
To: Daveinyork
I should have added; but neither is Congress.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
>>People always leave out the other option... we are the first. Someone has to be the first advanced civilization. It could be us.<<
You call us advanced? Compared to an amoeba, Yes. But, to compared to the Vulcan (for one), not so much.
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posted on
05/03/2013 3:00:01 PM PDT
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
To: NTHockey
Don't know... since Vulcans are fictions that humans wrote...
/johnny
To: LibWhacker
We can travel to the stars in Generation Ships and leave this century.
Of course it will be 100 generations before we get there — hope we won’t have forgotten why we left in the first place!
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posted on
05/03/2013 3:02:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: NTHockey
Vulcans are fiction. Jus' sayin' ...
But since we're in the realm of fiction, Ian Douglas offers some interesting musings regarding why we don't see any aliens 'out there.'
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posted on
05/03/2013 3:03:22 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Moore’s Law has to be taken into account now. Extrapolating backward from the current degree of DNA complexity to a single genome necessitates a 10 billion year hibernation period. Coupled with a lifespan to date of our galaxy of 10 billion years indicates that we may be the (or one of the) first organisms to evolve to sentience per the required time(s)for galactic and DNA evolution.
To: BenLurkin
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
/johnny
To: quantumman
It always just seemed sort of stupid to me to not consider that we are the 'ancients' that future species will speculate about (unless they find parts of the old internet, and that will really screw them up).
/johnny
To: BenLurkin
hope we won’t have forgotten why we left in the first place!Or are never told like those on the Golgafrincham's "B" Ark.
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posted on
05/03/2013 3:28:33 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
To: Da Coyote
To: LibWhacker
I enjoyed reading about the Larry Niven design, of a fusion-powered ‘ramjet’, fed by the free floating hydrogen particles in space, funneled to the ‘ramjet’ by a magnetic funnel, with greater ‘scooping capability’, as the ship gained speed. The fictional ship was sub-light speed, of course.
The natural world similarity would be of a basking shark, sifting super-small krill, thereby sustaining itself, and providing energy to continue on its way.
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