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@Tom: Geez you sure sound excited...
The road goes ever on. -Tolkien
Why shouldn't I be? I like space travel and the thought of Humanity conquering the cosmos as opposed to being chained to this mudball of a planet for the next 1000 years.
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Jones is invading the rest of the universe as soon as that thing is built. Oh, yes.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
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Have fun, dead man. I'll stay behind and wait until the inevitable problems are resolved. My mother did not go without her entire life to raise me just to lose me to my own stupidity and thirst for adventure.
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"mudball of a planet"
Hey, watch your mouth. That's my planet you're talking about.
Your Worth is 50 Yen!
Well, mine bloody well did.
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND, MOTHERFUCKERS
edited 17th Sep '12 3:43:49 PM by Blackmoon
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'80s TV Action Hero
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I do have fun. I've had rather a lot over the years. Wouldn't have had any of it without being slightly batshit with a thirst for adventure.
SCIENCE! is all about turning the Laws of Physics into the Suggestions of Physics.
Okay, that's not true it all. But damn it, I want my FTL hovercar!
ETERNAL
This is awesome. Without a doubt.
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
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Functional warp drives?
What's the point without the Geller fields?
Hell naw, man.
Hell naw, I ain't going there and neither are you.
The Great Northern Threadkill.
Yeah without Gellar fields the denizens of the warp will fuck you up.
Einstein should have never said that mankind will never travel faster than light.
Mankind LOVES that kind of challenge, 8-)
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That's only in Anti-Spiral-corrupted universes. We need to determine if the Spiral is healthy here before we waste money on Chaos-repellent. *spits, touches iron*
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I'm not sure we are speaking about the same stuff here.
The Great Northern Threadkill.
I am reminded of this ill-fated experiment.
Why are we trying to do FTL when we have trouble traveling at a fraction of that speed?
Departed days ahead.
Because life is too short to spend worrying on such trifling things as "safety" and "feasibility".
I guess we could go... wherever we please.
^^ Because SCIENCE bitches! Why increment up slowly when you can make great leaps forward? We didn't go to the Moon after mastering space colonies in orbit, we just shot straight there!
Yup.
You could just as easily say, why go faster than you can run? And stick to it.
Which would have stopped us developing the horse as a means of transportation, both on the horse and towed in vehicles behind it. Or indeed the sled-dog. And so on.
The article's talking about moving space-time itself and all you can think of are warp drives? That, to me, sounds like moving objects without any regards to its mass or other mechanics (since you're moving space-time itself, the mass of the object should not matter much, unless the bend in space-time changes things). Now imagine being able to move the Earth itself with the same effort as moving an ant.
Thing is, though, I think people had talked about this for a while, and everything is still speculative.
If it's physically possible, we'll do it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... but someday!
Samurai Troper
But....what is space-time moving in?
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So later that day we set sail for Europa.
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Eh, if we get FTL travel and decide go for space imperialism, I hope there turns out to be aliens and there is karmic punishment 
Europa? What's so great about that moon?
Science is beginning to think the "universal speed limit" may really only be a suggestion.
Possibly functional warp drives? FUND IT! FUND IT NAO!