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Space Travel At Warp Speed - Soon Possible?
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The Alcubierre warp drive is still theoretical for now. "The truth is that the best ideas sound crazy at first. And then there comes a time when we can't imagine a world without them." That's a statement from the 100 Year Starship organization, a think tank devoted to making Earth what "Star Trek" would call a "warp-capable civilization" within a century. http://www.screensavergift.com/wp-co...aceTravel5.jpg STORY HERE |
We must venture out before we kill our planet.
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this is an arthur c clarke story/idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story) it's basically a middle finger to the MIC |
still costs too much to launch in to space warp drive or not...a single kilo of anything costs like 20.000$ to get in to space...including compressed air...the cosmos is filled with tiny debris...hit it with any speed and you are pretty much fucked...for star trek shit we need to invent shields first :1orglaugh
even then you would have to say goodbye to everybody you know because 1 min of warp drive is 100 years on earth for example...and all this just to go somewhere where theres a 99.99999999999% chance you will find rocks and shit... even if there was gold on the moon it would simply cost too much to bring it back to earth, because you would need to set up a base and extraction facility and this is commercially simply not viable... maybe a small drone could be made just for explorations sake...but then theres the paradox that we would have to wait 100-s of years for a few minutes to pass...then 1000-s of years for the information to actually come back to us... its just a huge waste of money... |
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problem, i believe, is van allen belt.. lots of money going into how to protect computer systems etc |
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They're putting the cart before the proverbial horse. First we have to invent the food replicator, which will negate the need for a currency-based system. Once we get rid of concepts like 'money', 'cost' etc we can start putting efforts into exploring space, the lure of the final frontier being the motivator rather than billions and billions of "dollars", whatever those were. Then we can go find and meet whoever's out there.
Personally I can't wait. Got my Vulcan "live long and prosper" hand salute down to a science. |
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Most of that is based on the idea that these resources will be coming from the planet, when you're probably going to start seeing us mining asteroids etc that are in the area, and working off a base on the moon (why finding water on it was so important) If you needed to build something that would pull resources off the planet cheaply (building stations/moon bases/etc), you'd build an 'elevator': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator |
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humans are inherently lazy...2000 year old scrolls say the same thing as today: "todays youth is lazy and unmotivated and likes women and beer and does not like to work" (true story) :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh |
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I believe the Zeitgeist Movement is a quest for a more sensible human reality, and a more Star-Trek-Style future...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k3Ya5qiiW6k https://youtube.com/watch?v=JESwWE1GkYw https://youtube.com/watch?v=IqU-5gL25XQ |
they will not travel at any speed, because NUKEs will end shit on this planet one day
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Nothing more important than killing other planets at the same time. We need to learn to save this one first. |
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killing, the one motivator that gets humans off our asses!
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Do the crew of the USS Enterprise get paid a salary? I don't recall it ever being discussed in Star Trek. |
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cool looking pics
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