Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: November 22, 2024, 6:25 am
Atheist Forums › Science › Technology & Computing v
It's finally here!

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
It's finally here!
stonedape Offline
visible unicorn
**
Religious Views: No Gods-No Masters
Posts: 249
Threads: 19
Joined: August 17, 2014
Reputation: 2
#11
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 2:38 pm (This post was last modified: October 28, 2014 at 2:38 pm by stonedape.)
To everybody that took my opening statement seriously: The hoverboard is the pinnacle of Human Achievement! Fuck space travel. I want to hoverboard to the Pepsi-parlor.

Everybody else should check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quu551ehc0
god is supposed to be imaginary
Find
Reply
Violet Offline
Buffalo and Bee Lover
*****
Religious Views: There are beeautiful cloud buffalo in the sky.
Posts: 15755
Threads: 194
Joined: May 15, 2009
Reputation: 145
#12
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:19 pm (This post was last modified: October 28, 2014 at 5:20 pm by Violet.)
(October 28, 2014 at 2:44 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Theoretically the technology to build a interstellar craft could probably be built now. You cpuild use a a ion drive for acceleration and as you could maintain acceleration at about 1g for a around a year you achieve just under light speed.

Nobody wants it, there's not a lot of money in it at the moment. We have no sure thing as far as colonial prospects go. We get a sure thing, and perhaps some corporation or government will want to tap the 'unspoiled riches' of the 'new earth'.

FTL unlocks a lot of exploration potential. Better with FTL communications. Also, if any space agency can do colonial prospects justice, it's the Japanese.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Find
Reply
The Grand Nudger Offline
Retired Staff
*****
Religious Views: Invasive
Posts: 67189
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation: 162
#13
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:22 pm
Alice clearly suffers from azn fixation.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Find
Reply
Violet Offline
Buffalo and Bee Lover
*****
Religious Views: There are beeautiful cloud buffalo in the sky.
Posts: 15755
Threads: 194
Joined: May 15, 2009
Reputation: 145
#14
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:25 pm (This post was last modified: October 28, 2014 at 5:26 pm by Violet.)
(October 28, 2014 at 5:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Alice clearly suffers from azn fixation.

It's your fault, you know. Heart


We must be kind to our Asian Overlords.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Find
Reply
Jackalope Away
Elon Musk owes me money
*******
Religious Views: Absent
Posts: 30974
Threads: 204
Joined: July 19, 2011
Reputation: 141
#15
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:27 pm
(October 28, 2014 at 5:19 pm)Alice Wrote: We have no sure thing as far as colonial prospects go. We get a sure thing, and perhaps some corporation or government will want to tap the 'unspoiled riches' of the 'new earth'.

If we ever do get a nearly-sure thing, I'd bet that there would be significant competition to see who will get there first, particularly amongst the captains of industry.

With more money than you could spend in a thousand lifetimes, combined with the ambition that such people almost invariably possess, who amongst them would be able to resist the possibility of claiming an entire world?
Find
Reply
Violet Offline
Buffalo and Bee Lover
*****
Religious Views: There are beeautiful cloud buffalo in the sky.
Posts: 15755
Threads: 194
Joined: May 15, 2009
Reputation: 145
#16
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:30 pm (This post was last modified: October 28, 2014 at 5:30 pm by Violet.)
(October 28, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: If we ever do get a nearly-sure thing, I'd bet that there would be significant competition to see who will get there first, particularly amongst the captains of industry.

With more money than you could spend in a thousand lifetimes, combined with the ambition that such people almost invariably possess, who amongst them would be able to resist the possibility of claiming an entire world?

But an absolutely psychotic hit to one's short-medium term business here on earth. Not very many people are willing to put their everything on the line for a new venture in a distant land.

Governments especially have a strong reason to extend their presence to such new planets.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Find
Reply
Jackalope Away
Elon Musk owes me money
*******
Religious Views: Absent
Posts: 30974
Threads: 204
Joined: July 19, 2011
Reputation: 141
#17
RE: It's finally here!
October 28, 2014 at 5:55 pm
(October 28, 2014 at 5:30 pm)Alice Wrote:
(October 28, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: If we ever do get a nearly-sure thing, I'd bet that there would be significant competition to see who will get there first, particularly amongst the captains of industry.

With more money than you could spend in a thousand lifetimes, combined with the ambition that such people almost invariably possess, who amongst them would be able to resist the possibility of claiming an entire world?

But an absolutely psychotic hit to one's short-medium term business here on earth. Not very many people are willing to put their everything on the line for a new venture in a distant land.

Someone like Paul Allen might just be psycho enough to do it. Agreed on your latter point.
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Science › Technology & Computing v
It's finally here!

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Thank god, I finished this MVC project finally ! WinterHold 6 1374 April 4, 2015 at 10:28 pm
Last Post: bennyboy
  Finally Starting to Break Down... Rev. Rye 16 4150 August 18, 2013 at 9:08 pm
Last Post: Rev. Rye



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)