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Pros and Cons of Various Methods of Interstellar Travel
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| Matt Williams
Posted on 05/14/2018 11:08:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Dimensions are not places where you can go. There is no “fourth dimension” you can slip into to avoid the laws of physics.
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posted on
05/15/2018 4:26:25 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -Nietzche)
To: BenLurkin
Flux capacitor as a power source would do the trick.
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posted on
05/15/2018 4:40:26 AM PDT
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: I want the USA back
"There is no fourth dimension you can slip into to avoid the laws of physics." Time itself is a forth dimension (although, possibly more accurately identified as the 'zeroth' dimension).
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posted on
05/15/2018 5:06:27 AM PDT
by
The Duke
(President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanceh)
To: BenLurkin
Another “Scientific” idea that makes Infinity Wars look like a documentary.
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posted on
05/15/2018 5:12:50 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
To: FredZarguna; BenLurkin
“Nobody will ever need more than 640K of memory” — ??
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - C. H. Duell
Man make take some time, but some ‘from the mouths of babes’ will noodle out a ‘solution’
But to think Man knows all of what is possible to say “NEVER!” is the epitome of hubris and ignorance.
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posted on
05/15/2018 5:52:06 AM PDT
by
i_robot73
(One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t think that physicists, who are madly seeking undetectable phenomena, are going to solve the FTL problem.
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posted on
05/15/2018 6:05:39 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: i_robot73
The only realistic approach I see is where a new planet is formed in our solar system, between Mars and Earth.
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posted on
05/15/2018 6:07:19 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
To: BenLurkin
world ships capable of supporting multiple generations of travellers (aka. generation ships), Fine for the first generation of trained crew eager to leave Earth, but what happens when a quarter of the crew are three-foot tall entropy monsters. "You let go of the airlock knob. Let it go! You'll get a spanking if you turn that an no one will hear you scream."
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posted on
05/15/2018 6:23:38 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
To: KTM rider
the only way meaningful space travel could be possible would be to slip in and out of another dimension where time does not existTime does not exist. Time is a construct of the human mind based on observations of movements of heavenly bodies.
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posted on
05/15/2018 6:43:08 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
To: BenLurkin
It would suck to be an early star explorer, get there after many years and tribulations, only to discover people with newer tech beat you there.
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posted on
05/15/2018 7:05:08 AM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
05/15/2018 7:13:25 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: I want the USA back
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posted on
05/15/2018 7:28:22 AM PDT
by
freefdny
To: i_robot73
You don't understand what I posted, and have made yourself look like a fool in your reply.
Take your idiotic metaphors up with Euclid. The geometry of spacetime is what it is, and it isn't a lack of vision of engineering.
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posted on
05/15/2018 9:03:05 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)
To: LukeL
Like the idea that a baseball could quantum mechanically tunnel through a mountain because it’s “theoretically possible” (read: impossible in every practical sense) these ideas are genuinely preposterous.
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posted on
05/15/2018 9:07:46 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)
To: C210N
Well at about four and a quarter light years from Earth a trip to Alpha Centuari is around....(my math is not so good) 800 million light years? So, the travelers will be kind of ... old.
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posted on
05/15/2018 10:28:05 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: C210N
Only thing needed is an engine with constant acceleration of, say, a tolerable 1.1g
How would you fuel such an engine?
L
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posted on
05/15/2018 10:30:51 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: freefdny
Wow. Does that take me back. That America is long gone. Miss those days....
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posted on
05/15/2018 11:02:35 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: freefdny
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posted on
05/15/2018 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: FredZarguna
The limitlessness of human knowledge and INNOVATION ‘is what it is’
But, if you say so, Stephen Hawking *rolls eyes*
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posted on
05/15/2018 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
i_robot73
(One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
To: BenLurkin
As Heinlein noted, settling the Solar System will be like any of Earth’s Great Migrations, “The cowards never started, and the weaklings died on the way.”
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posted on
05/15/2018 11:33:22 AM PDT
by
DaBeerfreak
(As long as the politicians believe they're not the problem; we have a big problem.)
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