Rasori

Oh, that settles it. I am a geek, and have been for at least 10 years now. Darned computers...

When I'm bored I tend to stuff my hand in my mouth and bite hard enough that I can see the teeth marks for about 10 minutes.. Come to think of it, I do that when I'm both bored and tired... it wakes me up a bit.

Do people forget the possibility that other races may realize the problems with war before they commit to it? It's possible that they haven't banned things we see wrong, like cloning, but have banned things like weapons creation... of any sort. Sure, it's logical to think that a few will break that rule, but it's not enough to wipe the entire race out.

Building Spaceships for Dummies, anyone?

So THAT'S where the edit button is! I am very :lame:

Well that's true with any propellant in space if you fire it constantly and forever. Good point. I suppose I meant more like is there a formula of some sort as to how long it takes to get up to a certain speed with that propellant, etc, etc. Like, how long would it take a craft shooting a propellant with the density 0.1234 LB/FT³@32°F at a constant rate of 0.1921296 cubic feet per second to reach 100 m(km)ph, 500, 1000, and so on.

Ohh, god, one of the many things that gives me a headache. Theoretically, if time is considered a dimension, and the universe was created with the Big Bang (which thus meant the dimensions, which I think someone said there were 11 total- can anyone list them? I get lost after three ), then when the universe is destroyed it is logical that the dimensions (thus time) will cease to exist. Then something else could happen. Who knows, maybe something somewhere will decide to make the space hat the universe took up a giant replica of Central Park. See, I can't go on after the universe ending because then brings the major headaches: If the universe is in space (and I believe it is SPACE that allegedly goes on forever, and the UNIVERSE that has an end sooner or later) then what happens if the universe ends? There's now a gap in space which will be filled by space... but what does space come from? If the Big Bang created the universe, what created space? Better yet, whatever created space, what canvas was space made on? And what canvas was that canvas made on? It just goes on and on and on (need *I* go on?)

Oy, enough with the poodles already! In this case, the poodles being time travel. I was an avid Star Trek fan (at least, and avid Star Trek VOYAGER fan...) but even so, the time travel episodes would always get me channel surfing... it just makes NO sense whatsoever. You travel into the past for one millisecond and the ENTIRE future is reshaped. But then comes the fate idea kinda thing. Perhaps the future was only created because the person traveled into the past... and ooh, there's the migraine.

I'm looking for the following things, for what COULD be considered a school project but truly isn't. Let's say I'm trying to disprove something that I thought up myself that seems too simple to work. Okay, I need the following, simplified down to something that I can hopefully understand. None of this scientific stuff without an explanation, I'm simple-minded sometimes. (*s denote important parts) 1. One pound of thrust can hold something weighing one pound suspended in air if I understand correctly (the equivalent of 9.8m/s/s I think). *If a jet engine were providing one pound of thrust, how fast is the air coming out of it?* (*s denote important parts) 2. Space has very little friction (I'm restraining from saying none). *If a propellent is shot out of a spacecraft at 20mph (kmph, your choice, hopefully in the same units as above though), then how fast does the craft move in the other direction?* 3. 0.1234 LB/FT³@32°F I have no clue what that means, but it's the density of CO2 I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong and use the correct number in the following question. *If a spacecraft is shooting a propellant with the density 0.1234 LB/FT³@32°F at a constant rate of 0.1921296 cubic feet per second, how fast is it theoretically capable of going?* The spacecraft in question would be APPROXIMATELY 77111 kg. Sorry about switching between metric and US Customary, I'm just using the numbers as I receive them. I believe that's all for now. And if there's any sort of theoretical improbabilities (what I like to call 'mistakes' ) then point them out.

What about the first jet? Let's see, mid 1940s to mid 1960s and we go from the speed of sound to launching into space at well over a mile per second... That's 20 years compared to the 60 million years that humans have existed (I think that's the number). Whoo, that's a big leap...