Relativistic Robots and the Feasibility of Interstellar Flight

[badsurprize]

Can someone make a TL;DR version?

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;21217666]It's only that ridiculously expensive because it can currently ONLY be made in particle accelerators.

But yeah, I agree.

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

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Has anyone ever seen planets or stars in their dreams?[/QUOTE]

I once had a dream where I was in a dark room, in front of a monitor, which displayed coordinates. I then woke up, looked them up and found out they were the exact coordinates of the star Alshain.

[Clavus]

[QUOTE=badsurprize;21217795]Can someone make a TL;DR version?[/QUOTE]

tl;dr = put yourself in cryosleep, or else you're going to miss out on a lot of awesome shit.

[BaconDioxide]

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21217880]I once had a dream where I was in a dark room, in front of a monitor, which displayed coordinates. I then woke up, looked them up and found out they were the exact coordinates of the star Alshain.[/QUOTE]

Crazy shit man :o

I had a dream so epic last night, it moved me to tears (in the dream.)

I basically saved the world from an alien invasion through a game of paintball.

The weird shit my brain comes up with is fucking absurd.

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;21218064]Crazy shit man :o

I had a dream so epic last night, it moved me to tears (in the dream.)

I basically saved the world from an alien invasion through a game of paintball.

The weird shit my brain comes up with is fucking absurd.[/QUOTE]

:geno:

Paintball? Alien logic, I suppose...

[BaconDioxide]

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21218266]:geno:

Paintball? Alien logic, I suppose...[/QUOTE]

I figured it's like what happens in the movie Space Jam.

Except the dream started off really dark, with the fall of humanity as a fledgling interstellar race due to the alien invasion.

Then... segue to paintball tournament (with the aliens leaving if they lost, and the humans being enslaved if they lose.)

Yeah, my dreams don't make any fucking sense, but they're awesome.

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;21218367]I figured it's like what happens in the movie Space Jam.

Except the dream started off really dark, with the fall of humanity as a fledgling interstellar race due to the alien invasion.

Then... segue to paintball tournament (with the aliens leaving if they lost, and the humans being enslaved if they lose.)

Yeah, my dreams don't make any fucking sense, but they're awesome.[/QUOTE]

I should learn lucid dreaming.

[Radiosquid]

Slightly off topic, but why exactly is it that the closer we get to the speed of light, the slower we age? Somebody explained it to me once, but it was so long ago I think I was too young to understand a word of it.

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=Radiosquid;21220151]Slightly off topic, but why exactly is it that the closer we get to the speed of light, the slower we age? Somebody explained it to me once, but it was so long ago I think I was too young to understand a word of it.[/QUOTE]

Dunno, but the other day I was thinking about it. I think it's because the speed of light is a constant, so if you move at 0.999999c, a beam of light would move slightly faster than you. To prevent anyone from simply walking past the beam inside their ships (Relativity: Destroyed), time slows down, so the speed of light remains a constant even inside a ship moving at relativistic speeds.

Also, I just did the math. A ship moving at 90% the speed of light would get hit by 24,000,000 atoms of Hydrogen per second (This assuming the area facing the direction of flight is of one square kilometer, and the Hydrogen density in the interstellar medium is close to one atom every 10 cm³).