Stephen Hawking: Human Race Should GTFO or Die

[zoobernut]

Twin paradox, check it out.

Oh shi-

This topic is getting more interesting by the second. I love any conversation that involves the twin paradox.

[Max™]

I'd hope that's not what he meant....

Well, he DID mention light speed travel, so assuming he meant covering 60 trillion miles in 30 minutes (120 trillion mph? hauling ass), then you'd wind up returning at an earlier date than you left unless you were a fucking pro navigator, and managed to plot your course to reach a point in spacetime after you left, but that's all kinds of fucking complicated.

[Mizango]

Oh shi-

This topic is getting more interesting by the second. I love any conversation that involves the twin paradox.

As do I :D

Well, he DID mention light speed travel, so assuming he meant covering 60 trillion miles in 30 minutes (120 trillion mph? hauling ass), then you'd wind up returning at an earlier date than you left unless you were a fucking pro navigator, and managed to plot your course to reach a point in spacetime after you left, but that's all kinds of fucking complicated.

Man....the ener...en...energ... requir... my mind wont even allow me to think about it, no matter how hypothetical lol @@

[Max™]

The only way I can make sense of it is if you toss in a hyperspace gimmick.

Porting out in 30 hops, 1 hop a minute, each hop covering 2 trillion miles, that would reduce it to figuring out how to prove that extra dimensions exist/rotate through them/replot your position/destination accordingly.

Course, if you happened to whiz past a star system, the sight of a star blinking into existence, then the sky being torn aside... well, let's hope you don't have vertigo.

[Rhyis.]

I always wanted to be a space pirate. Hawking knows what's up.

[wipers]

I always wanted to be a space pirate. Hawking knows what's up.

Skies of Arcadia. Well not exactly outer space but well worth playing. Rogue Galaxy is more fitting.

[Kuya]

I just want big spacesations outside of Earth orbit. Is that so much to ask?

[Moss]

I just want the Mass Effect universe to come to fruition.

[Mizango]

I just want big spacesations outside of Earth orbit. Is that so much to ask?

Nope. LEO is for bitches.

[Rhyis.]

I just want big spacesations outside of Earth orbit. Is that so much to ask?

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Star%2...ate%202/01.jpg

Careful what you ask for. First it's space stations, then it's enslavement from ugly looking green aliens, protecting you from the enslavement of ugly looking black aliens.

[zoobernut]

I hope that someday I can take a cheap vacation to a massive space station orbiting Earth with day trips to the moon for a picnic.

[Mizango]

I hope that someday I can take a cheap vacation to a massive space station orbiting Earth with day trips to the moon for a picnic.

I think Kuya wants to eat on Uranus.

[Max™]

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...jpg?1281389724

This colony was made for droppin', and that's just what I'll do, one of these days these Gundam boots are gonna stomp all over you...

http://www.huge-entity.com/images2/space-colony-1.jpg

http://koti.phnet.fi/otaku/cosplay/gundam.jpg

Fuck yea, nigga!

I need sum Gundamz!

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[Kuya]

Nope. LEO is for bitches.

Then why the fuck don't we have big ass space stations? I want to at least be out of here in the next 50 years before shit hits the fan.

[zoobernut]

I think Kuya wants to eat on Uranus.

Maybe Kuya would order the....

Spoiler: show

Tossed Salad?

[Max™]

Maybe Kuya would order the....

Spoiler: show

Tossed Salad?

http://www.angryjerk.net/images/csi_miami_yeah.jpg

[Falaras]

Fuck yea, nigga!

I need sum Gundamz!

You know, in gundam expanding out to space actually caused the big disaster that plagued the earth, Stephen Hawking aint got shit on the creators of Gundam.

[Kerberoz]

If spaceships are built that can fly faster than the speed of light, a day on board would be equivalent to a year on Earth. That's because -- according to Einstein -- as objects accelerate through space, time slows down around them.

Someone learned about relativity from Trig Palin.

[Obev]

Space travel is easy guys....see ya later.

http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/f...nt-horizon.jpg

liberate tutemae ex inferis

Furthermore,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92m-yy4gGk

Seriously, reduce mass or something something something, relay, element zero, sciency-sort-of-stuff, something. Shut up, I'm not a scientist.

[Pirian]

Twin paradox, check it out.

Well with all this talk about FTL travel it has to be said that something like this wouldn't actually involve the craft "moving" faster than light, but you get that result by shrinking the space in front of the vehicle and expanding the space behind. So the time dilation experienced would be limited to the the slower-than-light speed that the craft is actually going without the "space manipulation"