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Quite right, double-dee.

Dammit, fred, you're ruining my fun- okay, fine put railguns on the railguns, each one fires in sequence as the fleet accelerates... no wait, that's kinda dumb, the ships can't be accelerating fast enough to outdistance their first volleys... maybe, crap, I dunno

expendable drone screens then!

And no, I don't think ship sensors can detect such small objects. If they did, they'll be beeping constantly, given that there's more than enough of micro-metoeries, dust and garbage in systems..especially popualted ones.. And if they DIDN'T then it's just a matter of time before a pebble punches a...

Objection, 'classical' objects are a collection of almost innumerable quantum effects, the dissociation between physics and quantum physics is a failing of modern science. Let us perform a simple experiment to determine the probability of a classical-scale object quantum tunneling through another s...

Objection, 'classical' objects are a collection of almost innumerable quantum effects, the dissociation between physics and quantum physics is a failing of modern science.

Wait, Arioch made a wargame for Outsider? I must have it.

razor: E=mc2(yeah i know, can't be arsed figuring out how to do a squared 2) tells us that objects in motion have more energy, therefor a increase in energy without a increase in speed should be a increase in mass...these are still pretty small value changes though. and something that always bother...

No, my point is that you're assuming: a) there is not a way around the lightspeed barrier by ignoring mass... somehow (tachyons with their imaginary mass, maybe, if they exist and if they can be caught without negating their needed properties); and, more importantly, b) that negative time implies ti...

Wait wait wait! Okay, so faster-than-light equals negative time, got it. But what does negative time look like ? I can't remember where, but I recall reading a book or paper that elucidated on the origin and end of the universe, big bang, big crunch, all of that. The author wrote that, assuming ther...

NOMAD wrote:hehe, I really hope Dec 21, 2012 doesn't happen. Looking forward to seeing what is coming next.

You... you disappoint me.

NOMAD wrote:As for old radio messages: unfortunately, the first tv broadcast is a Hitler at the 1934 olympic games ( according to the movie contact)

Waaat? That is both scary as hell and freaking awesome.

DevilDalek wrote:After all, they are 217 light years from earth, in the year 2160, so they should be getting radio transmissions from Earth from roughly 1943.

"Commander,"

"Yes?"

"We found it."

"Excellent."

I've heard it suggested that were it possible to exceed the speed of light that the power requirements would be so enormous as to require the full backing of the civilization's capabilities. Then again, maybe the only reason no aliens have visited is they haven't started getting our oldest radio tr...

We know that time travel isn't possible because if it was, there would be time travelers all over the place. The same way that we know FTL travel isn't possible. Right, at least in the first issue, after the first time traveler you start getting time travelers who believe we shouldn't be time trave...

Everything that scientists and engineers have achieved is an illusion resulting from coincidence, but that quirk is statistical rather than philosophical. As for time travel, there's probably some sort of rule in there like the conservation of energy/mass/information (there'd have to be some sort of...

It's not just acceleration but also relative velocity, there's no medium involved, and time dilation isn't an issue of perception. Two people can take different paths through spacetime and meet again after experiencing different amounts of time. This has been verified by experiment, and in fact mus...

because of time dilation, global simultaneity doesn't exist . There is no one "now'. See, I never understood this concept. I understand that certain things happen at certain rates, and that those rates change based on the acceleration the changing medium experiences, but it never made sense to me w...

bah, FTL travel alone is apparently a ridiculous notion according to a few friends who are able to devour information on the subject. I recall a discussion about, and forgive me if I muddle this recounting, the concepts are still alien to me, a vessel traveling at superluminal speeds to a destonatio...

Karst45 wrote:At least it didnt go out in a big boom!

Not to be an apathetic jackass, but maybe a few more catastrophic explosions might, in a typically contradictory fashion, renew public interest, demand rather, in manned space exploration. My perception of the zeitgeist is not very kind, I should admit.

The Umiak would have to learn that humanity's near undetectable to the Loroi, and even with their superior acceleration, would have had no time to find that out, develop the anti-psi weapon, deploy it in the field, and deliver it to this system in time to take out two Loroi fast attack groups and d...