oh yeah? well then FWAZZOOOOZOZOOZOOOZOOOOOO to you!:)
yeah, i was letting the whole nadion's don't exist thing slide, since dumping around 4000kj/kgk*60 degrees + heat of fusion (big, don't remember what, but a big number) and the expansion of water to gas thing, and on and on. Not to mention that terrible terrible smell it would likely make.
The energy question leaves me to think that accelerants packed into containers and accelerated through barrels is probably going to remain the "state of the art" in making dead people for some time to come.
Phasers are actually a lot more doable if you ask me. Particles can be accelerated using laser radiation at the right frequency, and has been used for small scale particle accelerator experiments in the past. My biggest holdup with phasers, is they don't sound right, and neither do freaken lightsabers. To my mind, lethal futuristic superweapons just are not cool if it doesn't do the old school War Of the Worlds "FSZHUULZUZOOZOOZOOOO" sound. Thats a prerequisite for weaponry in my book.
If all the mad supergeniuses trying to get the word p3n*s through my email filter would turn their attention to this instead, we'd be cloaking whole planets by now.... and solved AIDS
and cancer.
and boredom.
i could go on...
I recently moved from Seattle, WA to Columbus OH. When I got here, there were like, 3 or 4 cable providers in the local directory to choose from. Having been locked into monopoly land (WA state) for my whole life, I had no idea anything this wonderful existed. I chose one at random, (road runner I think, time warner? dunno) and signed up. Since that time, I have had obsurdly fast connections (I actually SEE 700KB/s, bytes, not bits, not just advertised) and can call and have things fixed when they go wrong.
Anyway, yes, markets with multiple sources of cable exist, and it sends you into a strange nirvana like state of being, where everything just works better. Ok, it isn't that cool, but it is nice.
BTW: I downloaded SuSE, Slackware, Solaris (I was curious), scientific linux, Quantian, debian, and this is getting obsurd. anyway, about 200GB of crap, over about a weeks worth the time, much of it over bittorrent (I know, legal stuff over bit torrent, my appologies) and they never even flinched. I routinely pull 2 and 4 GB of log files off of servers I am running elsewhere, push installs across my VPN, and do other wacky stuff, all on a $35/month connection.
Obviously, one data point doesn't mean much, but my datapoint definitely likes competition. Its almost as if monopolies aren't good for service or something.
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Not that they stand a chance. 2+ people in a box for 700 years, yeah, that will get bloody sooner or later. But beyond that, last I checked, we don't have fusion down. Last I checked, we just recently got America to agree to caugh up a check for the remainder of ITER, which won't produce energy, only validate models. So in short we don't have fusion, and so this is mute. I'm surpised noone else noticed this little problem.
Now IF we overcome that however, (maybe ITER will rock, who knows?) then we're set. Because really, fusion reactors, they're really pretty simple. Not like building a magnetic plasma confining device that operates without a glitch for 700 years under heavy load will be a technical challenge, puh-shaw!. I mean, the human race is full of examples of machines that have worked for 700 +years! Look at the pyramids! they're still, triangular. Or the.. Well, it doesnt matter, we can do it, 700 years isn't that bad!
Or we could sit down, STFU, and try fixing a real problem on the ground first. How about a stable society that can sustain intself without accelerating rapid expansion, just one, any of them. We have yet to do it. Right now, relativity protects the universe from germs like us, we process energy and raw materials so fast, that concerns about watching the universe fizzle are unfounded. We'll process the last of the stars down for fuel for SUV's and starbucks cups long before the black holes get them, c'mon!
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oh yeah? well then FWAZZOOOOZOZOOZOOOZOOOOOO to you! :)
yeah, i was letting the whole nadion's don't exist thing slide, since dumping around 4000kj/kgk*60 degrees + heat of fusion (big, don't remember what, but a big number) and the expansion of water to gas thing, and on and on.
Not to mention that terrible terrible smell it would likely make.
The energy question leaves me to think that accelerants packed into containers and accelerated through barrels is probably going to remain the "state of the art" in making dead people for some time to come.
Phasers are actually a lot more doable if you ask me. Particles can be accelerated using laser radiation at the right frequency, and has been used for small scale particle accelerator experiments in the past. My biggest holdup with phasers, is they don't sound right, and neither do freaken lightsabers. To my mind, lethal futuristic superweapons just are not cool if it doesn't do the old school War Of the Worlds "FSZHUULZUZOOZOOZOOOO" sound. Thats a prerequisite for weaponry in my book.
If all the mad supergeniuses trying to get the word p3n*s through my email filter would turn their attention to this instead, we'd be cloaking whole planets by now. ... and solved AIDS
and cancer.
and boredom.
i could go on...
I recently moved from Seattle, WA to Columbus OH. When I got here, there were like, 3 or 4 cable providers in the local directory to choose from. Having been locked into monopoly land (WA state) for my whole life, I had no idea anything this wonderful existed. I chose one at random, (road runner I think, time warner? dunno) and signed up. Since that time, I have had obsurdly fast connections (I actually SEE 700KB/s, bytes, not bits, not just advertised) and can call and have things fixed when they go wrong. Anyway, yes, markets with multiple sources of cable exist, and it sends you into a strange nirvana like state of being, where everything just works better. Ok, it isn't that cool, but it is nice. BTW: I downloaded SuSE, Slackware, Solaris (I was curious), scientific linux, Quantian, debian, and this is getting obsurd. anyway, about 200GB of crap, over about a weeks worth the time, much of it over bittorrent (I know, legal stuff over bit torrent, my appologies) and they never even flinched. I routinely pull 2 and 4 GB of log files off of servers I am running elsewhere, push installs across my VPN, and do other wacky stuff, all on a $35/month connection. Obviously, one data point doesn't mean much, but my datapoint definitely likes competition. Its almost as if monopolies aren't good for service or something.
Not that they stand a chance. 2+ people in a box for 700 years, yeah, that will get bloody sooner or later. But beyond that, last I checked, we don't have fusion down. Last I checked, we just recently got America to agree to caugh up a check for the remainder of ITER, which won't produce energy, only validate models. So in short we don't have fusion, and so this is mute. I'm surpised noone else noticed this little problem. Now IF we overcome that however, (maybe ITER will rock, who knows?) then we're set. Because really, fusion reactors, they're really pretty simple. Not like building a magnetic plasma confining device that operates without a glitch for 700 years under heavy load will be a technical challenge, puh-shaw!. I mean, the human race is full of examples of machines that have worked for 700 +years! Look at the pyramids! they're still, triangular. Or the.. Well, it doesnt matter, we can do it, 700 years isn't that bad! Or we could sit down, STFU, and try fixing a real problem on the ground first. How about a stable society that can sustain intself without accelerating rapid expansion, just one, any of them. We have yet to do it. Right now, relativity protects the universe from germs like us, we process energy and raw materials so fast, that concerns about watching the universe fizzle are unfounded. We'll process the last of the stars down for fuel for SUV's and starbucks cups long before the black holes get them, c'mon!