Starship Asterisk*

by **harry** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:18 am

I don't need to travel that fast.

I have a worm gate.

In seconds I'm able to travel anywhere.

OOOps pass me the wine Craterchains and put another prawn on the barbi Emepdea2.

This Xmas party is a woooosssy

by **craterchains** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:30 am

So, any body working on getting way way way past light speed over the hollidays?

Norval

by **Empeda2** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:33 pm

I'll say hello if I see them

by **harry** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:51 am

England. Wow!!!

I have many relatives there.

I'm from Sydney Australia

The Stars have been my hobby for the last few decades.
Evolution was my subject at Uni

Merry Xmas
and happy New Year to all

by **Empeda2** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:36 pm

Well thank you harry - as do you - I've never know somebody spawn so many discussions!

I currently work as a software developer but I read Astrophysics at Keele University in England, unfortunately, there's not a lot of call for astrophysicists in southwest England....

Still, got this board to keep me going

by **harry** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:19 pm

Empeda you write well.

Who are you?
What do you do?

by **BMAONE23** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:05 pm

S.Bilderback.
I had forgotten about that episode. It was titled "For the earth is hollow and I have touched the sky." Long title though

by **Empeda2** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:38 pm

While the peak moves faster than light speed, the total energy of the pulse does not. This means Einstein's relativity is preserved, so do not expect super-fast starships or time machines anytime soon.

Not quite...but certainly very interesting 8)

by **harry** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:17 am

Speed of light broken with basic lab kit

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2796

by **S. Bilderback** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:06 am

Just think, if you had a long-range Star Trek transporter, it would take all day to get to Saturn and back. Nine years round trip to Alpha C. (Earth time), there's got to be a better way!

by **harry** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:28 am

Now I have to see Star Trak

by **S. Bilderback** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:57 pm

The original Star Trek had an episode where a giant asteroid was hollowed out and had carried about 1,000 occupants for 100's of generations. (They didn't know they were in one).

by **BMAONE23** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:42 pm

There was an episode of Star Trek (TNG, or Voyager) that delt with this idea. The ship was refered to as a "Generational Ship". An interesting idea though.

by **harry** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:57 am

Maybe to build a colony of ships, each space being able to recycle 100 %.
The space ship will need to be an earth ship big enough to last for millions of years.

Send a million ships in a million directions.

Just like an oyster, send out 100,000 of eggs for a just a few to survive.

The journey may have a none return trip.

The energy pack will require to last for many many millions of years.

Maybe just a dream

by **devany** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:54 pm

songwriterz wrote:If this is true then how can we ever hope to explore our own galaxy, much less cross the interstellar gulfs?

The problem is not the the light barrier, it is the time barrier.

Arguably, we're close now (ie. ~100 years) to being able to build a ship that could travel the galaxy indefinitely, albeit very slowly.

What we have to do is figure out how to live long enough for such a voyage to make any sense. Another poster said a similar thing-

Storm_norm wrote:If we are going to travel out of our galaxy and explore the galaxy then its not going to happen with our current "state of consciousness".

It'll be easier to engineer the body to last for one thousand years than to engineer a ship capable of travelling at anything close to light speed.

Regards

by **makc** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:36 pm

I wonder if it was explained there somewhere, why women are affraid of mice and men aren't.

by **S. Bilderback** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:49 pm

No, don't read it, we are all doomed anyway, what's the point, My powersource will be drained before I finish anyway.

I adore that robot!

by **Empeda2** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:42 pm

Definitely - I think that one book explains more about how the universe works than every textbook I have ever studied combined......

by **makc** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:34 am

Nah, it would take way too long.
Get a title, "Hitchhiker's Guide to a Galaxy", and read it a bit.

by **harry** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:25 am

I do not understand

Please explain.

by **Orca** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:51 am

makc wrote:
FieryIce wrote:So your quoting him means what?
It means we still have a sense of humor.

Here here. 8)

by **makc** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:10 pm

FieryIce wrote:So your quoting him means what?

It means we still have a sense of humor.

by **FieryIce** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:37 pm

Interesting, Douglas Adams was widely revered in science fiction and fantasy circles ... was a cult British comic radio dramatist, musician and author.
So your quoting him means what?

by **Empeda2** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:15 pm

He also wrote:

The one thing that respectable physicists hate is a smartass....

by **Orca** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:35 pm

craterchains wrote:Must go much faster than light speed, actually I doubt that would be even a good
indicator of the necessary speeds to gain reasonable intergalactic travel.

Douglas Adams wrote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

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