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RE: FTL
June 13, 2014 at 12:07 am
(June 12, 2014 at 2:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I've seen this sort of thing before, about shifting an area of spacetime containing a spacecraft rather than the vehicle itself. As I recall, one of the minor drawbacks mentioned at the time was the immense power requirements, something like a single burst of energy greater than all the energy generated in human history. Apparently, such a release of energy would likely vaporise the Earth and probably the Sun as well.
I suspect - and hope - that all these stumbling blocks are overcome, within my lifetime for preference.
I don't recall hearing. I do recall reading that research in the 90s indicated you'd need a Jupiter-mass object for this to work, but that research in the last few years shows that can be overcome.
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RE: FTL
June 13, 2014 at 7:14 am
That's encouraging to hear. Maybe there's still a chance I'll get my Enterprise or Liberator one day.
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RE: FTL
June 23, 2014 at 1:05 am
How would you know where you're going and how will you get back to where you started from?
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RE: FTL
June 23, 2014 at 1:54 pm
A map and a steering wheel. High tech stuff.
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RE: FTL
June 24, 2014 at 3:22 am
Suppose you're 20 light years away from Earth. How would you pick out our Sun?
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RE: FTL
June 24, 2014 at 3:27 am
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I reckon if you had managed to get 20 light years away in the first place you would have good enough navigation technology to get home again.
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RE: FTL
June 24, 2014 at 8:15 pm
(June 12, 2014 at 11:31 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: It's more possible than you think.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-rev...ip-designs
Nothing travels faster than light. 'Tis true.
But space-time can move however fast it wants.
Warp the fabric of time and space around you. No propulsion necessary.
I mean obviously there's problems; mass-energy issues. If we solved that, we'd have perpetual motion...which thermodynamics doesn't exactly allow.
But hey, if we can fuck with the very fabric of reality...
Who's to say we can't break a few rules, eh?
If I have a healthy helping of baked beans the nite before, I regularly "warp the fabric of time and space around" me.
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RE: FTL
June 24, 2014 at 8:47 pm
"She cannae tak' any more, Captain - she's gonnae blow!"
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RE: FTL
June 24, 2014 at 10:44 pm
(June 24, 2014 at 3:22 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Suppose you're 20 light years away from Earth. How would you pick out our Sun?
Maybe by it's unique spectrum? Or more precisely, it's unique absorption spectrum. We are quite familiar with it after all.
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