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Re-discovered another good link from NASA on FTL travel and the challenges it poses.

WARP DRIVE WHEN

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Side tracking slightly to our earlier chat about ET's and all that, I always recall a really good short cartoon story in 2000AD (a great comic over here in Blighty).

Basically, NASA are shocked when an observatory spots flying saucers. All telescopes are tracking the ET's and they see them fly to the dark side of the moon. Over the next few weeks, blinding light is seen from the dark side of the moon, and a shuttle is prepped to go up there and make contact.

The shuttle launches and gets to the moon to see the ETs flying away. It goes round the dark side of the moon to see what is happening there and is shocked to find a great big sign, kind of like a road sign that says no parking or whatever.

The gallant astronauts manage to decipher the sign and are shocked when it turns out as saying "WARNING, IRRESPONSIBLE RACE IN CHARGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AHEAD"

Laugh? I thought it was

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jurijd, communism didn't fail because of enemies 'abroad and within'...

it failed because it absolutely relies on the 100% trustworthiness of people running the system to not take advantage of it...

since humans are animals, this will not happen

in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... in practice however, its HUGE:)

[ August 08, 2003, 18:26: Message edited by: Cirvol ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's damn quotable.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's damn quotable.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It already is a quote. I am not sure when, but I have heard it many times before. I *think* it may be Einstein.

Slick.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's damn quotable.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It already is a quote. I am not sure when, but I have heard it many times before. I *think* it may be Einstein.

Slick.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, Yogi Berra...?

[ August 08, 2003, 19:36: Message edited by: geckomlis ]

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I have found links giving credit to that quote to Yoggi Berra, and to JAN L.A. VAN DE SNEPSCHEUT, a
Dutch-American computer scientist and educator (1953 - 1994)

Have not determined difinitivly if it's either of them, or someone else entirely.

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Berra, Einstein... Same thing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Slick.

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we are not going to another solar system soon
1. Yes there are planets that can harvist life out there, but they are far apart.
2. We dont see them and the optics to see them will need a very wide base line.
3. Multi generation ships are very very risky. In all societies there are distructive people. You would need a lead room for people and food to hide from radiation. Thats alot of lead so we would probably have to make a really good magnetic field instead.
4. no gravity and the inertia idea dosnt work.

i am not saying it wont happen

and with mars there just is not a reason to do it until we have micro machines that can turn rust and CO2 into steel and O2

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What do you mean by #4?

With "zero" gravity, inertia becomes more important, but certainly not stronger or weaker.