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| 27 Nov 2012 04:38 PM |
| I just facepalm nasa suck. |
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| 27 Nov 2012 04:41 PM |
You are all so offensive. Jeez. The Europeans are nice people. Ive met them.
"Bored" ~100465 |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:16 PM |
| I thought Obama murdered NASA? |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:19 PM |
Haha, I can discuss NASA from an emic perspective.
No, Obama didn't kill NASA. He did the capitalist thing and privatized it. |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:24 PM |
| amazing the hypocrisy of some republicans |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:28 PM |
| i was so confused when he was upset about a government program dying |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:31 PM |
Didn't Russia buy NASA or something? Or was that just a troll?
~And then Cosmonius tripped on a bug~ |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:33 PM |
| did you read that on the onion |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:34 PM |
No, some guy on ROBLOX told me. But he was on OT so unless it's ReneDescartes, awsomeness7878, or one of the more intelligent ones, it's not really reliable.
~And then Cosmonius tripped on a bug~ |
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| 27 Nov 2012 05:37 PM |
no
they just bought kennedy space center, kinda like how we own guantanamo bay in cuba |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:29 PM |
| Give Nasa half the budget of the US military and we will be star trekking across the universe in 20 years. |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:32 PM |
"As your faster-than-light ship sails through the cosmos, it’s not alone. Although we often think of space as empty, there are loads of high-energy particles shooting through the void. The University of Sydney research [PDF] indicates that these particles are liable to get swept up in the craft’s warp field and remain trapped in the stable bubble.
The longer the journey lasts, the more of these dangerous particles build up. This doesn’t affect the ability of the warp drive to keep bending the laws of the universe — it’s the stopping that’s going to ruin your day.
The instant the Alcubierre drive is disengaged, the space-time gradient that allows it to effectively move faster than light goes away. All the energetic particles trapped during the journey have to go somewhere, and the researchers believe they would be blasted outward in a cone directly in front of the ship. Anyone or anything waiting for you at the other end of your trip would be destroyed.
Because of a funny little quirk of relativity, there is no upper limit to the amount of energy a Alcubierre drive could pick up. A long trip could vaporize entire planets upon your arrival. The researchers are beginning a new round of number crunching to see how bad the problem is. It’s possible the deadly particle beam could be projected in all directions, making Alcubierre drives unworkable. That spiffy warp ship might make a better weapon than method of transportation."
I like how we are talking about how to fix the problems as if we already have done it.
Gives me hope. |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:34 PM |
| US might fund it if the ship can be used as a weapon |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:36 PM |
Oh the problem of the drive won't be seen as a problem for a little :P
25 Years and a couple billion and we should have interstellar Ballistic Warp bubble bombs.
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:36 PM |
Also Private sector is too wussy to fund this for lack of short term profit.
Thank God for government (TGoG) |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:40 PM |
"Europeans are socialist, illiterate, godless savage heathens."
You are a rude, savage beast. The europeans are nice. |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:43 PM |
| we can blow up aliens in other solar systems |
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| 27 Nov 2012 06:44 PM |
| We can fight off the evil anti-free market ruskis! |
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