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though on the other hand, there's lots of stuff we can't perceive, but our machines can
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we'll rain down nuclear fire on the heads of lesser beings and take their wealth for our own
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Moridin920 posted:we'll rain down nuclear fire on the heads of lesser beings and take their wealth for our own nah, far more effective by that point to grab a few km wide asteroids and chuck them at some idiot fuckers depends on what you consider wealth though. if it's gold you're after, hanging out near neutron stars seems like a good bet quote:A recently observed flash in the distant universe suggests that smacking two dense, dead stars together can create gold in vast amounts – with a mass 10 times that of the moon. The finding may help settle a debate about whether colliding stars or supernovae are the main sources of heavy metals in the universe. Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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perhaps it is we who are the idiotfuckers realtalk if anybody has happened by they probably don't want anything to do with us until we can actually unify as a civilization and stop slaughtering and eating our cousins realrealtalk the only thing that may have happened by are probably ancient, autonomous probes beaming pictures back to creators who'll never see them moon the sky
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a human boot, stomping an alien face forever
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFTaiWInZ44&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Moridin920 posted:a human boot, stomping an alien face The Terran Empire is inevitable.
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Moridin920 posted:we'll rain down nuclear fire on the heads of lesser beings and take their wealth for our own we will uplift the bipedal dick people of rigel 7 to the light of terran civilization
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i think the aliens should get off their vorlon butts and come smoke a blunt
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Omi-Polari posted:i think the aliens should get off their vorlon butts and come smoke a blunt We could trade them blunts for mineral and mining rights on their worlds. 
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that's assuming that THC has any effect on them at all+ they have lungs to breathe it in with
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we'll chemically engineer drugs specifically designed to keep the aliens subservient, docile, and happy and productive
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btw back in april a new theoretical model suggested that a warp drive might not require as much energy as we thought but itd still need to use fusion power http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/04/23/warp-drive-research-key-to-interstellar-travel/
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There was a really shitily amazing book series that I forget the name of just now which involved two incredibly peaceful but diametrically opposed civilizations fighting a very low violence war for eons against each other because while they realise war is inevitable between the two of them they both abhor violence to such a degree that they can't bring themselves to just start vapourising each other. Then one stupid idiot works out their civilisation will eventually lose, discovers humankind and despite being like "well gently caress these guys are all sociopathic violent maniacs" decides to uplift them to an interstellar race. Humankinds only talent is pure, suicidal war and they end up obliterating the other side within like 200 years. Then everyone realises they're probably next and it's too late to put humanity back on the rock they found them. What I'm trying to say is Aliens are probably idiots ripe for conquering.
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Fojar38 posted:btw back in april a new theoretical model suggested that a warp drive might not require as much energy as we thought Seems like it's just another project (Icarus) thats considering fusion. I wanna know what the gently caress their (the nasa propulsion guys) mechanism is.
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They're gonna be all 'check it out we've worked peacefully for thousands of years and achieved space technology' and we'll go 'our history is a history of war and destruction and you're probably next  '
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The Protagonist posted:Seems like it's just another project (Icarus) thats considering fusion. i cant find any articles that go into the super nerdy details but apparently the nasa guys think that they might be able to bring energy requirements for an alcubierre drive down from "exotic matter" to "fusion power" with a sufficiently efficient engine
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Somewhere, a debate rages about whether to contact the homosapians. Aliens drive spacecars with "Don't let the monkeys off their rock!" bumbperstickers
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d3c0y2 posted:There was a really shitily amazing book series that I forget the name of just now which involved two incredibly peaceful but diametrically opposed civilizations fighting a very low violence war for eons against each other because while they realise war is inevitable between the two of them they both abhor violence to such a degree that they can't bring themselves to just start vapourising each other. Star Cuck
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Fojar38 posted:i cant find any articles that go into the super nerdy details but apparently the nasa guys think that they might be able to bring energy requirements for an alcubierre drive down from "exotic matter" to "fusion power" with a sufficiently efficient engine I would really, honestly like to know more. There are so many loving issues with this idea, from turning to stopping to...gently caress Can we just figure out fusion first, please?
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if that's the whole universe then where's the camera. is it outside the universe?
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Moridin920 posted:They're gonna be all 'check it out we've worked peacefully for thousands of years and achieved space technology' a civilization that's had thousands of years of peace will definitely have the tech to beat up a bunch of apes. with how dog eat dog evolution and the universe is, the idea of a completely peaceful race is a tough pill to swallow. i think that if there's some kind of galactic network of dudes chilling it's probably like a big space UN that has to deal with extremists who want independence or more money or something gay like that Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Orkin Mang posted:if that's the whole universe then
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The Protagonist posted:I would really, honestly like to know more. There are so many loving issues with this idea, from turning to stopping to...gently caress this goes into a bit more detail from the looks of it but still not much http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblo...st-popular.html keep in mind that warp drive research only gets 50 grand of annual funding
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I figure an advanced, unified and peaceful civilization would still be prudently concerned about other life like we are of viruses.
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Read this in neil degresse tysons voice.
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Fojar38 posted:this goes into a bit more detail from the looks of it but still not much http://arxiv.org/ You might be able to find his actual paper here if you're lucky
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Fojar38 posted:btw back in april a new theoretical model suggested that a warp drive might not require as much energy as we thought Warp drive is just 30 years away.
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Robo Reagan posted:http://arxiv.org/ the paper would be way too complex for me to make heads or tails of it all i can read is "warp drive maybe someday with fusion"
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Robo Reagan posted:http://arxiv.org/ I'm looking now because I've seen that dailygalazy article before and it's got fuckall for details literally just 'we'll put a ring around the craft'
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Fojar38 posted:the paper would be way too complex for me to make heads or tails of it all i can read is "warp drive maybe someday with fusion" Ah, well the problem with space exploration is nobody else is really doing it. NASA has its pet projects like wanting to send some people to Mars, but it's hard to pitch space exploration to people because it doesn't directly* influence how much money some dudes makes off it in the end. The only thing that will light a fire under our asses in the foreseeable future is Russia/China deciding they want some Mars bases too. *obviously it's paid dividends in terms of our cultural advancements and things like loving cellphones only being possible because of space exploration Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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china cant even put a robot on the moon that doesnt break in less than a week and russias space program was koed 3 months ago
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Fojar38 posted:china cant even put a robot on the moon that doesnt break in less than a week X37b shot it with an electromagpulse 
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there's also fun poo poo to look forward to, like some extremists who decide humans belong on Earth. They launch a few rocks flying at a few hundred miles per hour in to some debris (there's a fuckton) floating around Earth. Since there's not much to stop it, it would create a domino effect where eventually Earth would be surrounded by bits of metal orbiting us, chewing through anything it touched. It wouldn't just be metal either, a fleck of paint can punch a hole in something if it's flying fast enough. There's some solutions to the problem, but it mostly involves shuttling up a bunch of sand and giving friction a few hundred years to do what it does.
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Robo Reagan posted:There's some solutions to the problem, but it mostly involves shuttling up a bunch of sand and giving friction a few hundred years to do what it does. Actually I saw one idea fielded that could actually deorbit junk by sweeping it was lasers and exerting radiation pressure on the leading side, decelerating it. Ain't no fuckin' luddites keepin me on this rock
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The Protagonist posted:Actually I saw one idea fielded that could actually deorbit junk by sweeping it was lasers and exerting radiation pressure on the leading side, decelerating it. Oh? Last I heard they said that wasn't a very quick way to do it, but I suppose the sand trick isn't all that fast either. The proper solution is to clean that poo poo up before it becomes a problem anyway so look forward to NASA becoming space janitors possibly within our lifetimes
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Robo Reagan posted:The proper solution is to clean that poo poo up before it becomes a problem anyway so look forward to NASA becoming space janitors possibly within our lifetimes A noble profession.
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