Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into space

BoingBoing ^ | 11/24/14 | Charles Platt

[rarestia]

One can never have too many BNC patch cables

My wife constantly asks me why I need to keep computer hardware from the 90s in my workshop. I'm going to show her this article to prove my point.

[1raider1]

What we do not know is written on infinite pages filling infinite libraries.

Would we know less if the infinite pages were in finite libraries, or ONE infinite library? Then again, how does one go about filling an infinite space?

[1raider1]

My bad. I should have asked, would we know MORE, etc, etc?

[no-to-illegals]

Is a Great thought and two questions from you, Raider! What if we are in only one hole in the cheese? What if we can’t penetrate the cheese? What will we do if we reach the fact that infinite is finite? Am sensing big trouble if that theory is fact, 1Raider1.

[no-to-illegals]

sometimes all I can do is LOL ... Did you ever see the movie ‘More’ in college?

[EternalVigilance]

Then again, how does one go about filling an infinite space?

With infinite patience.

[PeterPrinciple]

functional Theory of Everything,

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well, we do have global warming.............

[1raider1]

Didn’t see it. Was your post a quote? If so, please excuse my ignorance. As we’ve seen here on FR many times, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between reality and satire.

[no-to-illegals]

if quoted someone was completely unaware. Am a simple person that reads some, types some and Heaven forbid ... thinks some. Am not intelligent. I know nothing ... and that’s a quote from Sargent Shultz but not the one that was in D.C. at one time.

[Sherman Logan]

Excellent point.

[mrsmith]

“If you don’t work on a problem, you don’t solve it,”

The older I get the less I’m impressed by the 10% of inspiration and the more I’m impressed by the 90% of perspiration.

[no-to-illegals]

oh btw .. the movie I mentioned is real, as is the name of the movie, ‘More’. Movie ‘More’ is about twenty minutes long and tells quite a story.

[1raider1]

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

[no-to-illegals]

Raider, did a quick search but am finding nothing that relates to the movie ‘More’ except a movie about a heroin addict. The movie ‘More’ am referencing was not about such. Brief synopsis ... The movie ‘More’ am referencing was about mankind and the quest for more, more and more. The movie relates to a beginning of nothing for mankind after mankind finds mankind does not have enough of anything and everything ... thus begins the quest to have ‘More’. ‘More’ ends when anything and everything winds up on the ash-heap of History only to begin the same quest once again by mankind.

[zeugma]

There is a difference between reality and satire?

[preacher]

The Dean space drive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBvzCjpPcE

[GraceG]

All one has to do is find a way to convert potential electrical energy in to a Directed Kinetic type energy...

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

For example, if the small object is a capacitor that is vibrating at a relatively high frequency, and the electrical charge on it fluctuates at twice that frequency, the mass of the capacitor should fluctuate, too.

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Wait, are they talking about a “Flux-Capacitor?”

[dfwgator]

Maybe they should talk to Ralph Kramden.....

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Then again, how does one go about filling an infinite space?

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You could start with those little packets of condiments from fast food establishments. Then move on to newspapers and magazines you want to read but haven’t gotten to yet.