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NASA tests speed of light travel?

Started by KRonn, April 30, 2015, 01:39:20 PM

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jimmy olsen

Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...
The asteroid belt and the Oort Cloud have enough resources to support trillions of people.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Siege

Quote from: The Brain on May 01, 2015, 03:02:05 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...

Singularity immortals. Flesh is but a memory.

This is one of the possibilities, and the most likely one from our current technological perspective, but their are people investing in the possibility of endless renewal of the human body.
I'll get you a link later.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Siege

Quote from: Razgovory on May 01, 2015, 03:20:39 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...

He has no idea what he's talking about.

Remember I introducced you to the concept of the technological singularity.
Your little brain will eventually catch up.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Siege

Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 01, 2015, 11:52:50 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...
The asteroid belt and the Oort Cloud have enough resources to support trillions of people.

Post singularity civilizations are post scarcity.
100% recycling and molecular restructuring on a 3D printer.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Eddie Teach

Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 11:55:11 AM
Remember I introducced you to the concept of the technological singularity.
Your little brain will eventually catch up.

Hopefully, one day you'll be introduced to the concept of skepticism.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Siege



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Siege

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 01, 2015, 12:01:32 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 11:55:11 AM
Remember I introducced you to the concept of the technological singularity.
Your little brain will eventually catch up.

Hopefully, one day you'll be introduced to the concept of skepticism.

I am skeptic of socialism, communism, luddites, alien contact of any kinds including paleo-contact, and all kinds of conspiracy theories.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Eddie Teach

Wholesale rejection without considering the merits is not the same thing.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 12:05:09 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 01, 2015, 12:01:32 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 11:55:11 AM
Remember I introducced you to the concept of the technological singularity.
Your little brain will eventually catch up.

Hopefully, one day you'll be introduced to the concept of skepticism.

I am skeptic of socialism, communism, luddites, alien contact of any kinds including paleo-contact, and all kinds of conspiracy theories.

LOL :lol:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Siege

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 01, 2015, 12:08:33 PM
Wholesale rejection without considering the merits is not the same thing.

Why do you assume that?
I am a recent convert to full free market capitalism.
I used to support the concept of limited socialism.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Razgovory

Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 11:55:11 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 01, 2015, 03:20:39 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...

He has no idea what he's talking about.

Remember I introducced you to the concept of the technological singularity.
Your little brain will eventually catch up.

No, Verner Vinge did.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Siege on May 01, 2015, 12:19:35 PM
Why do you assume that?

Those thoughtless demotivational pics you like to post don't help.  :P
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

Converts are always the most zealous.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Tonitrus

Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 01, 2015, 11:52:50 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 01, 2015, 02:57:27 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 30, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Will it be called the Shawyer Drive?

Regardless, it is still a sublight drive. So my theory that alien civilizations become immortals before achieving hyperdrive tech, thus eliminating the need for colonies, still viable.

Wouldnt people becoming immortal mean we need more colonies? On account of there being too many people...
The asteroid belt and the Oort Cloud have enough resources to support trillions of people.

But not much in the way of quality of life.  There are no flowers, trees, or green open pastures in the Oort cloud.

MadImmortalMan

So it wouldn't need fuel but it would need a nuclear reactor.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers