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What if we are the most advanced civilization in the universe? What if we -are- the Ancients?
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Aug 21, 2016 13:26
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As the Ancients, we should be seeding life everywhere we can so that in a few more billion years, they can grow into intelligent civilizations and they won't have to feel lonely like we do. Then they will come to our homeworld, seeking the wisdom of the long-gone Ancients, in our broken dead world orbiting a red giant, and they will find the Internet and peruse it. We really have to wipe out the internet's history before we die out.
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Aug 21, 2016 13:48
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Dark matter is actually a massive network of computational substrate that conforms the actual lifeform this universe was made for. We're simply one of its many experiments.  Seriously though, I think the enormous, unfathomable distance involved is the real limiting factor in everything discussed here. The universe is a biiiiiiiiig place.
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Aug 23, 2016 00:22
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doverhog posted:In most of science fiction, including Star Wars and Star Trek, spaceships travel with some kind of warp system. They don't actually travel at the speed of light in normal space, because that would be too slow for the speed of plot. In Star Trek, outside of warp speeds they travel with impulse engines, where "half impulse" (the most usual speeds are "quarter impulse", "half impulse" and "three-quarters impulse") means 0.5c. Not that it matters, because Star Trek is full of inconsistencies (not that it ever intended to be hard sci-fi of course).
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Aug 25, 2016 20:44
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