Bufofrog

Distance. I know it sucks. I would love a universe where Star Trek or Star Wars was a real thing but it ain't. We are celebrating man reaching the moon 50 years ago. Why haven't we been back? Distance. And the distance to the moon is nothing. I fear the chance of successfully sending people to Mars and having them return within the next 20 years is 75% at best. The Fermi paradox isn't a paradox at all. The answer is unpleasant but obvious, "you can't get there from here". I am not going to argue this, since it is pointless, but i do think that if we didn't have this idea in the back of our minds that we have all these new planets to escape to, then just maybe we wouldn't treat the earth like it is something we could throw away after crapping it up.

I certainly do. Maybe it would be the technology more than the pure physics that would prevent us from successfully* leaving the the solar system. It will never happen and there is no place to go anyway. *I think in the distance future we could send a ship full of dead people to another star...

I agree, based on the current physics and the cost involved I can confidently say we will never travel to another star system. I think if there is any sentience that would be able to achieve interstellar travel it would be AI. No food, atmosphere or radiation damage to worry about and the AI could go into sleep mode for the 1000 years it takes to reach a close star. The vehicle could be quite small also.

One of his bro's told him, dude!

Since infinity is not a number this is no problem. Any number you put in for R will result in a valid result. Since infinity is a concept it is not surprising that substituting a concept for a number will result in an invalid result. Glad we cleared that up!

Thanks for info.

I think he has discovered the energy of an electron I infinite. I did not know that...

Probably no interest. Seems like you are asking how to make a semiconductor into an insulator. Why, what's the point?

I thought the size of the Highs boson was about 1/100 of the size of a proton, which is way different than your result.

A magnetic field that surrounded the ship would require too much power to be feasible. Cosmic rays were not an issue for Apollo because of the short amount time in space. It will be an issue for a trip to mars.

Same question in a new thread. -1

That was pretty damn funny.

Yeah, I think that is what he is talking about. Why he thinks there some sort of problem with that is quite beyond my capacity.

Oh my, you could go to heck with that kind of talk.

You are easily haunted. If God made Hillary lose then he chose Donald to win. So apparently God likes a fucking moron*, who is a pathological liar, and sexually assaults women. So are you saying God is nuts? *As reported by the people who worked with him.

I'm not interested in visiting your site, present your reasoning here.

That is because you are not listening.

That doesn't even make any sense. So the photon is absorbed and then somehow is not really absorbed and then somehow 'makes' extra photons and then a magical new time dimension appears?? That is quite a peachy-keen hypothesis. Absolutely no basis in reality, but peachy-keen.

There is no purpose or goal in evolution. The purpose of a star is not to fuse hydrogen. The purpose of a river is not to send water to the ocean. What we observe in nature is a consequence of physical laws, there is no purpose. The basis of evolution is not improvement, that is too vague and subjective. Evolution is simply that an animal that is suited to an environment will survive long enough to produce viable offspring and one that isn't will not produce offspring. It may be that 200,000 years in the future man will have a brain that is only half the size that it is today. That would be an 'improvement' because that trait of having a pea brain is best suited for the environment.

Good point I was only addressing the SR aspects of the question.

Neanderthals had larger brains on the average than modern man.

Since the cabin and the occupants are moving at the same speed they would see nothing out of the ordinary. 20% of c will not result in big visual changes in any frame. Even at 99% of c the cabin would look normal to the occupants.

Good point, I was wrong on my initial post.

Nope, you wouldn't go anywhere. If you didn't hit the backboard you could go in the opposite did though.

At this rate the game should be ready around 2045. I will be long dead be then so I see no reason to contribute.