Einstiens Theory of Relativity?

I'm still working on why they didn't go 384....... so much cleaner for programmers, circles just don't work as cleanly for me as other things, one of those things that just doesn't catch right.

 

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i.e. gravity = bowl......

and cg was found to be = c

I think it was last year...
Maybe 99% of science is just people reinventing the wheel....

 

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yeha I get the arguments. But i suppose theres a difference between understanding them and being fluent enough with the subtleties to effective fight a corner.

 

Oh now you want fluency....... I have pictures but I can't explain shit, that puts my cards on the table (I fold)

 

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Man well never reach the speed of light or no where near that speed . even if we hang on to our last day with our dieying Sun. and even at the speed of light a man made vehicle could not survive the trip to a near by solar system nor would we live that long with out resupply. we do have our limitation .

 

2 words.... generational ship

 

Who'd volunteer for that?

Let me rephrase that. Who'd volunteer for that who also has the physical strength and fitness and intelligence and sanity and specialist skill required to set up a colony on another world.

And how the HELL would we get any probes out there and get any data back from distant worlds within a life time in order to determine where we'd send a generational ship.

And what would be the point? For one thing it would cost a bloody fortune to do it, money which would be better spent improving the quality of life on THIS planet. Also, if there're planets capable of sustaining life on there then there will almost certainly BE life on there. And their immigration policy regarding illegal aliens probably won't be very accommodating. There's nothing wrong with this planet that we can't fix with all the time and money and energy that is currently wasted on exploring the universe. Let's sort ourselves out first before we start parading the galaxy. Because if we did try it and we DID run into alien life they'd all be pointing and laughing at us because of the current state of our world.

 

never say never. That said even if we did get to the spped of light the nearest star would still be 4 years away. Our best bet is to find someway around, wormholes were a good, if not rather far fetched, idea.

 

OUR SUN well run out of fuel before we can obtain speed of light travel. or even have a remote idea how to do it. our cars still uses 4 rubber tires and our airplanes still fly the same way as the 1902 flight.

 

yeah but its going to be the best part of 5 billion years before the sun gets us so I rekon if we make this progress every 100 years we'll be ok So long as there are no fundamental laws preventing us escaping I think we've got time. Its only a question of if we get ourselves first.

 

Yes i can agree there with you. but if we dont kill each other in the next 10.000 years or a meteor dont run into us or make earth so polluted to become a toxic waste land.

 

What progress? We've made bugger all progress on an interstellar scale. All we've done is advance our way of living in the environment for which we evolved. We're best off sorting ourselves out properly here, which is what we do best.

 

launch probe, focus on here, build gen ship, get volunteers (bet that'd be a shit load easier than you think)

launch gen ship as soon as you have details

 

I agree that we havent amde much progress in the past decade but in the scale of 5 billion years I dont think a bad decade will make much difference. I think the only thing that would stop us on that time scale is any fundamental laws of physics or, more likely, ourselves

 

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