• I'm scared of my mortality.
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[QUOTE=mikeyt493;24394388]I wish I lived the ages of Vikings and stuff (if not as a Viking then as a person who does NOT get raided by the Vikings cos that would kinda suck). Life was so much simpler back then. So much better. No worries about school and studying to pass your exams to get a job so you don't end up living on the cold, hard, streets every night, etc etc etc. I know you'd have to learn how to survive, how to catch your own food and all that. But I would far prefer to do that rather than live in this world today. If anyone's ever read the book Eragon, I'd love to live in a world like that. Not necesarilly with the fantasy elements (Dragons, elves, all that other cliché stuff :v:) but just that lifestyle. It's perfect for me. This'll sound really quite ironic, but I hope that a time machine is invented during my lifetime, so that I can go back to then and live like that.[/QUOTE] The average human life-span was about 20 [editline]10:32PM[/editline] [QUOTE=FreeThinker;24394418]It's possible to travel to the closest planet orbiting a star other than the Sun using nuclear energy, and it would take only 11 years or so. [/QUOTE] This is completely wrong. The nearest planet bearing star is Epsilon Eridani, which lies about 10 light-years from Sol. Nuclear propulsion can push crafts up to perhaps .07c. That means it would take approximately 130 years to get there. Unless you mean Project Orion, which wouldn't actually work.
My diagnose: OP needs a high dose of Flying To Valhalla, The Killing Star, and anything written by Charles Pellegrino, including the article on his website: Relativistic Robots and the Feasibility of Interstellar Flight. If you ignore the alien invasion, it's a pretty awesome (And highly plausible future): Carpets of photovoltaics on the Moon built by self-replicating factories with all the precision the laws of physics allow, spacecraft fluttering out into the nearest stars at near-lightspeed, hundreds of thousands of people living in megastructures of ceramic and fullerene.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;24394698]My diagnose: OP needs a high dose of Flying To Valhalla, The Killing Star, and anything written by Charles Pellegrino, including the article on his website: Relativistic Robots and the Feasibility of Interstellar Flight. If you ignore the alien invasion, it's a pretty awesome (And highly plausible future): Carpets of photovoltaics on the Moon built by self-replicating factories with all the precision the laws of physics allow, spacecraft fluttering out into the nearest stars at near-lightspeed, hundreds of thousands of people living in megastructures of ceramic and fullerene.[/QUOTE] And undoubtedly science-fiction. Relativistic Robots and the Feasibility of Interstellar Flight is mostly correct, but reliable self-replicative robots and Asimov arrays won't be possible for thousands of years minimal. The Valkyrie shuttle is a great concept, also, but its collision nulling mechanism (the vapor) isn't practical once particles reach a certain mass.
[QUOTE=Destitide;24394795]And undoubtedly science-fiction. Relativistic Robots and the Feasibility of Interstellar Flight is mostly correct, but reliable self-replicative robots and Asimov arrays won't be possible for thousands of years minimal. The Valkyrie shuttle is a great concept, also, but its collision nulling mechanism (the vapor) isn't practical once particles reach a certain mass.[/QUOTE] Ohmygod you had already read it? I AM NOT ALONE IN THE WORLD OP LETS BE FRIENDS
What amazes me is how some people can be so boring. The types that spend their whole lives just going to clubs, sitting in a park bitching each other, hunting for one night stands and then going to what ever boring job they have, and then having the nerve too look down on intelligent people. It kind of annoys me and saddens me.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;24397504]What amazes me is how some people can be so boring. The types that spend their whole lives just going to clubs, sitting in a park bitching each other, hunting for one night stands and then going to what ever boring job they have, and then having the nerve too look down on intelligent people. It kind of annoys me and saddens me.[/QUOTE] This might be a good read for you [url]http://blog.figuringshitout.com/nov-5th-day-23-three-types-of-passion/[/url]
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