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There's Only One Problem: Physics

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Posted by Aurino Souza on July 3, 2003 19:37:06 UTC

94 light years, 188 round-trip. Our current spacecraft would take aeons for such a trip. A rocket capable of traveling at relativistic speeds would still take longer than two centuries to do it, require more than one year of continuous acceleration to reach cruise speed, and somehow magically use the energy equivalent of hundreds of nuclear weapons without crushing the poor cosmonauts.

But Harv thinks it can be done. I think that means something: too much Popular Science is bad for your brain.

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What Harv meant was 2525 years... - smartguy - July 3, 2003 - 19:54 UTC
Physics? - harvey1 - July 3, 2003 - 20:13 UTC
- Somehow I'm more inclined to believe in teleportation,Alan-style - aurino_ - July 3, 2003 - 20:47 UTC
  - I set no limits - harvey1 - July 3, 2003 - 21:02 UTC
    - this is interesting enough to have its own forum! - whomi - July 4, 2003 - 02:15 UTC
      - It's not a space exploration issue - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 13:46 UTC
        
        Well, can't it be bo th? - whomi - July 4, 2003 - 19:21 UTC
    - You do not _acknowledge_ limits - setting them is not up to you - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 12:50 UTC
      - Who is the limits up to then? - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 13:42 UTC
        
        Logic? Nature? God? Definitely not us - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 14:24 UTC
        
        Aurino, can I have a few million dollars? - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 14:36 UTC
        
        Funny that you mentioned money - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 14:51 UTC
        
        Maybe so - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 15:05 UTC
        
        Nonsense! - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 15:37 UTC
        
        Not so - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 15:50 UTC
        
        So! - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 15:56 UTC
        
        And so... - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 17:18 UTC
        
        You may be in good company, but my company is even better - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 17:49 UTC
        
        But, my scientists can beat up your scientists - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 17:52 UTC
        
        I have Einstein on my side... - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 17:59 UTC
        
        This just occurred to me - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 18:03 UTC
        
        No - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 18:57 UTC
        
        Reminds me of when Woody Allen brought in Marshall McCluhan - whomi - July 4, 2003 - 19:23 UTC
        
        The Warp Drive metric... - bruce - July 4, 2003 - 20:27 UTC
        
        Some papers on the subject.. - bruce - July 4, 2003 - 20:36 UTC
        
        I have found the answer to the problem - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 21:05 UTC
        
        Ah, and if they are light years away... - lysithea - July 4, 2003 - 23:43 UTC
        
        Right on... - bruce - July 5, 2003 - 20:46 UTC
        
        It's cool stuff - harvey1 - July 6, 2003 - 01:48 UTC
        
        Really? - lysithea - July 6, 2003 - 20:20 UTC
        
        Good luck at getting a job at NASA. - bruce - July 7, 2003 - 01:40 UTC
        
        Theoretical Physicist. - lysithea - July 7, 2003 - 02:00 UTC
        
        Do you believe it? What license does it give? - carefuluniverse - July 7, 2003 - 04:44 UTC
        
        Bruce is vermin; exterminate him immediately - carefuluniverse - July 7, 2003 - 04:25 UTC
        
        and here's why I wrote that (though I am actually pretty nice) - carefuluniverse - July 12, 2003 - 21:22 UTC
        
        Out of fairness - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 17:01 UTC
        
        Also out of fairness - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 17:15 UTC
        
        Since when you became a crank? - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 17:39 UTC
        
        Again, not proved wrong - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 17:41 UTC
        
        And what exactly would those be? - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 17:51 UTC
        
        Apples and oranges... - smartguy - July 4, 2003 - 18:37 UTC
        
        One point of correction - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 18:51 UTC
        
        Seeing through Harv's BS - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 19:22 UTC
        
        BS? - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 20:28 UTC
        
        Alrighty Then... - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 18:47 UTC
        
        As I expected, you dodged the issue - aurino_ - July 4, 2003 - 19:15 UTC
        
        Can't turn it around - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 20:21 UTC
        
        Correction - harvey1 - July 4, 2003 - 20:30 UTC

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