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Interplanetary Superhighway
rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science magizine contains the article "Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway - 'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the planets, their moons, and a
host of other destinations as well. But unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a very long time to get there."
Because all of these tunnels connect through Atlanta where there is a "change of plane".
An Interplanetary highway, eh? Better head down to the pub, in a hurry!
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
...getting the rights to the book title "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
I wonder if this applies to the seven rules for spotting bogus science?
What you reap is what you sow
We can't even build a highway from Seattle to Honolulu. How about thinking globally and acting a locally?
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That's what this is. You don't get quite the comfy ride in the back of a Vogon Space Cruiser or anything, but it's still hitchiking.
Now if only I could get a free ride to the Midwest or East Coast this way.
Tweet, tweet.
Of course it takes a long time... you forgot rule #1... the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line... err... is it a curved line? no... wait... ahh screw it...
Ok... it's a friday night... I'm sitting at home, with nothing better to do than try and be a smartass on slashdot... Oh lord, I've wasted my life...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
The project is a failture from the start...what good is it when this "highway" doesn't deliver porn?
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
"The Universe is big. Really big. You might think that it is a long way to the chemist, but that is nothing comapred to the universe."
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Al Gore.
someone had better tell them to wait 5 damn minutes, because if I don't find out what the friggin question is, im gonna go insane, or, well, as insane as someone who was just blinked out of existence can be...
Yes, the shortest distance is a straight line. But if you can bend space so that the straight line between two points is shorter, it won't take as long to get there!
Space-folding technology is still a work in progress, though.
When do the tolls go into place? Would we have to STOP even though the system will probably automated? We do have to be human sometime and make it counter-productive...
How am I to hitchhike off this god-forsaken planet without my towel?!?!
Like most Amerikans, I want it all, and I want it NOW.
Plus, those gravitational speed ups are slowing down the planet! Eventually, we'll suck up so much momentum to cause the earth to stop revolving around the sun, and we'll burn up!
Act now to fight the destruction of our gravitational resources!
Raise your hand if your first reaction to this article was to try to find a copy of Ltool...
you know you've been reading too much slashdot when you think it says "...these things are real. In fact, they are already being SUED"
Am I the only one who finds this redundant?!?! =P
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
"Use the Parker-Sochacki solution to the Picard iteration [jmu.edu]. "
Using this, the Next Generation writers could tell how many more times they could use the "Caught in a time loop" plot device.
Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved.
(chorus)
We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
And a kilogram weighs half a pound.
(chorus)
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough wrench.
(chorus)
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!
(chorus)
CHORUS:
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
--Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)
© 1978 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm
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Where's my flying car. I want a flying CAR! This gives new meaning to the name "Disney World".
With this stuff talked about in another slashdot article, it seems that I could just use my super-human blood to hold my breath as I walk the distance and never get tired!
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