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#51 2003-01-29 9:02 pm

Bundy
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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

You meant to say Major Tom. That would suck Major Tom.

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control. I'mmmm stepppppinnngg through the dooooor, and I'm floating in the most pecular waaaaaaay, and the stars look very different toooooodaaayyyyy"

That sounded alot funnier when I was writing it... blush

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#52 2003-01-29 9:15 pm

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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

As far as debris, that's what forward shields are for!  Or Bussard ramjets - they love debris.

And as to what happens when you exceed light speed - you go back in time like tachyons.

300000kms/s. It's not just a good idea.  It's the law.


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#53 2003-01-29 10:15 pm

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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

Kim knows that the first step toward space exploration is to examine the human artifact with biologic alterations in mind that will render our H.A. more suitable for space conditions and space travel....  We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium.  The water we live in is Time.  That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space.  And that is where we are going.  Kim reads all the science fiction he can find, and he is stunned to discover in all these writings the underlying assumption that there will be no basic changes involved in space travel.
     My God, here they are light-years from the Earth, watching cricket and baseball on Vision Screens (can you imagine taking their stupid pastimes light-years into space?).  Yes sir, the fish said, I'm just going to shove a little aquarium up onto land there, got everything I need in it.


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#54 2003-01-29 10:55 pm

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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

Sounds like we're back to sub-light speed arks again.  We can do that now.

Finally, my reading of Sci Fi books is useful.  This one guy, Baxter seems to think that the way to do it is sending out robot probes that are able to grow humans using an artificial womb after they get the planet and build a base. These Probes would be self replicating and in generation after generation would slowly colonise the galaxy for the cost of the origonal probes.  Of course if we discovered some artifact that allowed instant transportation between light year distances, that would help too.


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#55 2006-12-31 3:35 pm

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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

yeah...you're right folks....now i'lll just have to remain seated at the toilet just waiting for the next ufo encounter to maybe crash on earth and i'll be the first to say-----yes! here is it!

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#56 2006-12-31 4:39 pm

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Re: Will mankind ever reach the stars?

Ack! The thread, it...rises again!

http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/zombieTC1.gif

(hint--check the last posting date before adding to a thread.
Oh: welcome to the MacAddict Forums smile )


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