just put me in the freezer fam

Just kill me now, fam.

Wormholes?

Nothing is impossible with science.

Wormholes?

pipedream

We're talking about the manipulation of spacetime itself.

Quote from: Nexus on October 19, 2015, 11:34:43 PM

Nothing is impossible with science.

unless its wrong

Get aborted.

SHUT UP

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Nothing is impossible with science.

I like this attitude.

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Well, actually, the farther we get along, the bigger the hurdles are going to get. There's only so far you can go before your scientific progress begins to stagnate because the hurdles get so much more massive in scale.

I'd actually say, that due to entropy, we'll reach a point were our technology can go no further due to the constricting limits of our universal laws. The successful climb up a never ending hill won't last forever.

Quote from: Naru on October 19, 2015, 11:35:34 PM

Quote from: Nexus on October 19, 2015, 11:34:43 PM

Nothing is impossible with science.

unless its wrong

Get aborted.

but its true, our definition of physics could be wrong and that we're looking in the wrong places. thats what scares me. if something big doesnt add up, then what exactly do we even know?

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 19, 2015, 11:46:26 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:40:00 PM

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Well, actually, the farther we get along, the bigger the hurdles are going to get. There's only so far you can go before your scientific progress begins to stagnate because the hurdles get so much more massive in scale.

I'd actually say, that due to entropy, we'll reach a point were our technology can go no further due to the constricting limits of our universal laws. The successful climb up a never ending hill won't last forever.

We're gonna conquer this motherfukin galaxy, Sandy, and that's final!

Na. We might touch down on a few bodies in our solar system. But without the ability to "move" faster than light we'll never see anything beyond our solar system.

Think of all the resources that could be potentially wasted if you built slow moving colony ships meant for the long haul? Sent to a star system only to find nothing.

The odds aren't good. Anything using conventional propulsion will never make the grade.

Quote from: Korra on October 19, 2015, 11:48:19 PM

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 19, 2015, 11:46:26 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:40:00 PM

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Well, actually, the farther we get along, the bigger the hurdles are going to get. There's only so far you can go before your scientific progress begins to stagnate because the hurdles get so much more massive in scale.

I'd actually say, that due to entropy, we'll reach a point were our technology can go no further due to the constricting limits of our universal laws. The successful climb up a never ending hill won't last forever.

We're gonna conquer this motherfukin galaxy, Sandy, and that's final!

Na. We might touch down on a few bodies in our solar system. But without the ability to "move" faster than light we'll never see anything beyond our solar system.

Think of all the resources that could be potentially wasted if you built slow moving colony ships meant for the long haul? Sent to a star system only to find nothing.

The odds aren't good. Anything using conventional propulsion will never make the grade.

>has never heard of percolative drift

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 19, 2015, 11:51:58 PM

Quote from: Korra on October 19, 2015, 11:48:19 PM

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 19, 2015, 11:46:26 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:40:00 PM

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Well, actually, the farther we get along, the bigger the hurdles are going to get. There's only so far you can go before your scientific progress begins to stagnate because the hurdles get so much more massive in scale.

I'd actually say, that due to entropy, we'll reach a point were our technology can go no further due to the constricting limits of our universal laws. The successful climb up a never ending hill won't last forever.

We're gonna conquer this motherfukin galaxy, Sandy, and that's final!

Na. We might touch down on a few bodies in our solar system. But without the ability to "move" faster than light we'll never see anything beyond our solar system.

Think of all the resources that could be potentially wasted if you built slow moving colony ships meant for the long haul? Sent to a star system only to find nothing.

The odds aren't good. Anything using conventional propulsion will never make the grade.

>has never heard of percolative drift

I have not.

Even still. To make any sort of colony ship it would have to have an inexaustable power supply, renewable resources, and be capable of tanking just about anything space could throw at it to damage it.

The size, scope, and technical details required are immense.

And we're not even counting what human nature does over time if this was a long journey that was generation based rather than sleep based.

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:40:00 PM

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

After seeing some people's attitudes about such an endeavour it's hard not to totally give in.

Fuck pessimism, that attitude has never achieved anything. I'm alive and you're alive and other people who have hope are alive, we'll make it eventually we just need time.

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:40:00 PM

Quote from: Duck Fieri on October 19, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

Quote from: Cadenza on October 19, 2015, 11:34:40 PM

I think that only makes the inevitable human conquest of space all the more impressive. To think that we'll have to be able to be able to engineer a ship and society that could collectively survive a mission spanning centuries, it's somthing to strive for.

Inevitable. . .

Hardly, we're struggling fam. If some people were to have their way we'd stay here and stagnate or even just kill ourselves.

Scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities are like entropy, their increase is inevitable and unavoidable. Even if we don't personally live to see significant space advancements, people aren't going to give up on it without being completely lobotomized. Have some faith.

Well, actually, the farther we get along, the bigger the hurdles are going to get. There's only so far you can go before your scientific progress begins to stagnate because the hurdles get so much more massive in scale.

I'd actually say, that due to entropy, we'll reach a point were our technology can go no further due to the constricting limits of our universal laws. The successful climb up a never ending hill won't last forever.

I believe we'll just have to face those hurdles as they come, if we find something that absolutely cannot be done then we'll simply redefine the question we were asking and build an alternative.

Right now the growth of technology isn't slowing down, and the more it disseminates amongst people the more we'll be able to make use of what we already have; I figure that's the most important part of it all, hundreds of millions of tiny little improvements that add up to conquering space.