Bill's just trying to find the ultimate storage device he can download his consciousness onto for a future advanced civilization to recreate into some sort omnipotent being.
I for one welcome our descendants future supreme overlord.
First off, G-Forces only affect you if there is gravity. The flight only lasts 2 hours with 30 minutes of 'space shuttle like views' or whatever so lets say that's the time where you are weightless, you won't experience any of the G-Forces while you could be moving at Mach25. The only time you would ever 'feel' the force is while in the atmosphere and while accelerating/decelerating. As the acceleration increases (so G-Forces increase) you are getting further away from the Earth and thus the effects are 'felt' less. I'm not going to get too much into the math side of this since I'm sure if I do the people who already understand the math behind it will agree just by reading what I've written and those who don't, will flame me regardless.
Now, I'm not saying that the forces you do feel wouldn't require some sort of training like Fighter Pilots or Astronauts go through, but that brings me to the second part of my comment. As many people have already mentioned this really wouldn't be the type of thing that your average_joe_sixpack could afford, but the importance of developing this technology furthers what we can do when we try to say, send a manned mission to Mars, or that Moon Base the U.S. wants to build. Trying to develop a craft to fly to Mars in a feasable amount of time to get the Astronauts back if someone goes awry, would be a very costly mistake if we tried to jump straight to that. Now if they try to get flying around our own little planet as quick/efficient as possible it's much more likely we would be able to successfully build something that could go to Mars in a day.
"Humans that couldnt drink milk found something else to eat."
Not to nit pick but when my fridge is out of milk I don't start eating a potatoe, I find something else to DRINK
I read / skimmed through the comments as much as possible so if someone already mentioned this I apologize.
I remember reading an article (I think last year) about oLEDs in SciAM and how sheets of them could be produced to be used as displays (for cell phones/computers/other) which would be transparent when no current was running through them. Not exactly sure where this technology is at these days but I would think that they could be made into practically any shape (to accomodate the many different styles of eye glasses). You could have a little button or something on the side of your glasses to cut the power to/from the display so that they could be normal glasses except when you wanted to view something (like the skydiving stats).
Also "bastard math" is one of the funniest terms I've heard in a while.
I would think one area in which this would be really helpful would be in the military/government branches. If they wanted to print out a secret report or something and not have it fall into the wrong hands it would be beneficial to have it disappear in a certain time frame.
Though I've been rewatching the xfiles series so maybe I'm not being realistic
Do we get to keep the title of "longest undefended border" if we put these robots up? Or would we have to amend it to read "longest undefended border.. by humans"
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Bill's just trying to find the ultimate storage device he can download his consciousness onto for a future advanced civilization to recreate into some sort omnipotent being. I for one welcome our descendants future supreme overlord.
First off, G-Forces only affect you if there is gravity. The flight only lasts 2 hours with 30 minutes of 'space shuttle like views' or whatever so lets say that's the time where you are weightless, you won't experience any of the G-Forces while you could be moving at Mach25. The only time you would ever 'feel' the force is while in the atmosphere and while accelerating/decelerating. As the acceleration increases (so G-Forces increase) you are getting further away from the Earth and thus the effects are 'felt' less. I'm not going to get too much into the math side of this since I'm sure if I do the people who already understand the math behind it will agree just by reading what I've written and those who don't, will flame me regardless.
Now, I'm not saying that the forces you do feel wouldn't require some sort of training like Fighter Pilots or Astronauts go through, but that brings me to the second part of my comment. As many people have already mentioned this really wouldn't be the type of thing that your average_joe_sixpack could afford, but the importance of developing this technology furthers what we can do when we try to say, send a manned mission to Mars, or that Moon Base the U.S. wants to build. Trying to develop a craft to fly to Mars in a feasable amount of time to get the Astronauts back if someone goes awry, would be a very costly mistake if we tried to jump straight to that. Now if they try to get flying around our own little planet as quick/efficient as possible it's much more likely we would be able to successfully build something that could go to Mars in a day.
"Humans that couldnt drink milk found something else to eat." Not to nit pick but when my fridge is out of milk I don't start eating a potatoe, I find something else to DRINK
I'm intolerant to a lot of things, lactose isn't one of them
I read / skimmed through the comments as much as possible so if someone already mentioned this I apologize. I remember reading an article (I think last year) about oLEDs in SciAM and how sheets of them could be produced to be used as displays (for cell phones/computers/other) which would be transparent when no current was running through them. Not exactly sure where this technology is at these days but I would think that they could be made into practically any shape (to accomodate the many different styles of eye glasses). You could have a little button or something on the side of your glasses to cut the power to/from the display so that they could be normal glasses except when you wanted to view something (like the skydiving stats). Also "bastard math" is one of the funniest terms I've heard in a while.
Volcanologist. Vulcanologists are a form of hardcore Star Trek nerd.
I would think one area in which this would be really helpful would be in the military/government branches. If they wanted to print out a secret report or something and not have it fall into the wrong hands it would be beneficial to have it disappear in a certain time frame. Though I've been rewatching the xfiles series so maybe I'm not being realistic
Do we get to keep the title of "longest undefended border" if we put these robots up? Or would we have to amend it to read "longest undefended border.. by humans"