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Shalebridge Cradle posted:We have a theoretical framework for FTL travel, it would just require the energy equivalent of around 700kg of antimatter (about 1.26x10^20 joules) to work is that a lot
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is why i tossed in the 'in practice' if humanity does discover ftl it'll be far enough in the future and development of our species that we won't really be 'modern' humans anymore
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is that a lot it matters nearly as much as nothing
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indigi posted:good
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is that a lot It isn't even enough to blow up the moon.
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some of us want to be uploaded in von neumann probes and live forever as an unstoppable wave of trillions upon trillions of copies
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T-man posted:some of us want to be uploaded in von neumann probes and live forever as an unstoppable wave of trillions upon trillions of copies Definitely, before I die upload my consciousness into an interstellar probe. I'll play video games all the way to Alpha Centauri and report back when I get there
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Accretionist posted:It isn't even enough to blow up the moon. pathetic. even master roshi was able to destroy the moon.
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Junpei posted:what strategic advantage does Antarctica have? It's just ice and penguins and research stations. what the gently caress are you talking about https://www.ft.com/content/2fab8e58-59b4-11e8-b8b2-d6ceb45fa9d0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw They're programming the killbots to default dance on our corpses
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is that a lot its equivalent to around 20% of the electricity consumed on earth in a year
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:its equivalent to around 20% of the electricity consumed on earth in a year Why don't we just use that energy for ftl travel instead of smart lightbulbs then
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Inceltown posted:Why don't we just use that energy for ftl travel instead of smart lightbulbs then need more bitcoins
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Wheeee posted:the barrier to faster-than-light travel is fundamental to the laws of physics which govern our universe, if there is a way to get around it in practice it's so far beyond our species' conception of reality that it's useless to speculate on its possibility. crossing oceans and powered flight were very different problems, especially given that we already knew both were possible given the existence of birds and whales centuries long cryosleep (or an equivalent technology) is a bigger barrier to interstellar travel than propulsion imo. any worldship type solution will probably tear itself to pieces around the time that nobody alive on board remembers what Earth is indigi has issued a correction as of 07:30 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is that a lot it would be roughly 100,000 kg of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion. the fusion reactor being built will operate with less than a gram of fuel in the reactor.
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Tokamak posted:it would be roughly 100,000 kg of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion. the fusion reactor being built will operate with less than a gram of fuel in the reactor. how would you store anti matter? wouldn’t it just explode anything it came in contact with?
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you store it where it doesn't matter, duh
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a fatguy baldspot posted:how would you store anti matter? wouldn’t it just explode anything it came in contact with? magnetic confinement, and pray that system never fails. at cern they use something called a magnetic bottle.
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Acelerion posted:How about a concrete cube with 8 other people on an uninhabitable planet 10 years from now It would still be infinitely more habitable than any other planet
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indigi posted:centuries long cryosleep (or an equivalent technology) is a bigger barrier to interstellar travel than propulsion imo. any worldship type solution will probably tear itself to pieces around the time that nobody alive on board remembers what Earth is "Cryosleep" is just being dead. So all we gotta do is figure out a way to kill someone, and then centuries later bring them back to life. Another thing that sci-fi has convinced us is possible, based on nothing.
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As soon as what ever tech is keeping Kissinger alive goes mainstream we can have people live long enough to get to other places.
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Gripweed posted:"Cryosleep" is just being dead. So all we gotta do is figure out a way to kill someone, and then centuries later bring them back to life. Another thing that sci-fi has convinced us is possible, based on nothing. but have you considered the possibility of uploading your consciousness to the computer? in a way which definitely will NOT just be killing yourself with a machine so a chatbot can pretend to be you.
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:We have a theoretical framework for FTL travel, it would just require the energy equivalent of around 700kg of antimatter (about 1.26x10^20 joules) to work Lol no we don't, we have a solution to Einstein's field equations that requires a thing that likely doesn't exist that some guy calculated out of his rear end would require this much energy equivalent. Most valid EFE solutions aren't meaningful, most calculations out of an rear end aren't valid, and also, the thing we need does not exist. Also if it did there are a host of other issues completely unaddressed by the theoretical framework, from survivability of people in the spaceship through survivability of the source/destination of the journey all the way to the impact on the fabric of spacetime. You might as well say "we have a theoretical framework for time travel in hour increments, simply borrow Hermione's timeturner to do it"
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exmarx posted:but have you considered the possibility of uploading your consciousness to the computer? in a way which definitely will NOT just be killing yourself with a machine so a chatbot can pretend to be you. or you upload yourself and watch as nothing happen and you realize you're going to die here while yourre fuccboi rear end in a top hat doppelganger in therre loving PARTYING w/o you
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its okay I'm allowef to say these things about that complete rear end in a top hat in there as i am him
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You wouldn't download a consciousness
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exmarx posted:but have you considered the possibility of uploading your consciousness to the computer? in a way which definitely will NOT just be killing yourself with a machine so a chatbot can pretend to be you. It's not exactly an upload but a Ship of Theseus style gradual replacement of brain cells with artificial equivalents could allow for real continuity of consciousness and not just a copy of you.
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Wheeee posted:is why i tossed in the 'in practice' trying to shepherd a present day biological human body to the nearest other star just wouldn't work. There are too many lethal hazards to attempt to navigate for that length of time and we have no great idea what the long term health effects of such an alien environments would be. Any serious attempt at such a thing would only make sense after we achieved the ability to radically alter our biology for survival in space and other worlds. Even including real borg style cybernetics. In other words this is functionally impossible at the moment. We can't even imagine how it might be done.
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new scp dropped https://twitter.com/wtfbuildings/status/1343981367462416385
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it would be more successful rage bait if it was a US prison
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brb investing my 401k in neuralink
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I'm gonna blow this fucker up in the Control sequel
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buddy, they won't even let me gently caress it
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:We have a theoretical framework for FTL travel, it would just require the energy equivalent of around 700kg of antimatter (about 1.26x10^20 joules) to work you can't go faster than light dummy, and even that 1,000 tsar bomba worth of energy is still less than how much energy the sun shines down onto earth alone every half hour
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every other species has gone extinct on earth and humans will too, and that's OK because there's no where better for us to be by a country mile
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we don't even live at the bottom of the ocean (or underwater at all) on our big watery ball planet why the gently caress would we go to mars or some other star system, underwater is like 10 miles from me right now and it has food in it and is a reasonable temperature we don't even live in our deserts that have vegitation and oxygen in the atmosphere and whatever. it's a disgusting fantasy to leave earth
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Antonymous posted:we don't even live at the bottom of the ocean (or underwater at all) on our big watery ball planet Th' planet's dyin', Cloud!
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