Posted on 09/10/2019 6:41:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Man will never even break the sound barrier.
As one approaches the speed of sound the air compresses in front of the aircraft. The aircraft attempting to push its way through would cause huge chunks of this semi-solidified air to break off and batter the aircraft to pieces. To even come close to the speed of sound we will have to develop aircraft that lead with a wing edged with a huge chainsaw to cut through the clumps.
Or so the expert on the radio told my dad.
Me too, sort of. I design and implement lab instrumentation, both hardware and software. Yet, I just can’t assume we know everything there is to know about physics since our civilization is less than 200 years into the “hard stuff”.
Overheard at T minus thirty seconds at the Alamogordo test center on July 16, 1945.
wonderful speculation.
They need to have some kind of label for science based on fact and that on fantasy like ‘theory’
“Sky-an-tists” (... MWC kelly bundy)
I think I had him in HS......................
If you break sound barrier TEN TIMES, it will still require 1000 generations of humans breeding inside the confines of a space craft to reach the NEAREST star (other than our Sun).
There is a black hole in some galaxy which is like 35 Billion times bigger than our Sun, but it exerts no influence on planet earth because it is billions of light years away.
Think of universe as grains of sand, with each grain of sand representing a Sun. Then the next grain of sand a mile away. People get fooled by seeing a jumble of stars in the sky. But they fail to comprehend that those shiny objects light emitting stars are millions of light years away.
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney
And if you send out Von Neuman type sub-luminal probes piloted by AI robotic and which contain the DNA of the source seeding civilization - or even just the blueprints of the DNA you could seed/alien-terraform great swaths of the galaxy in a billion years.
Whomever is out of the gate first wins.
Smaller than Mickey. But definitely bigger than Billy Barty.
Bravo! Nice poem of the universe!!
Keep on dreaming....just don’t wake up?
Mhmmm....excess yellow bile. You should stick to barley cakes until fall sets in.
Every scientist up until yesterday was wrong about everything but today we have it all figured out.
In 1000 generations some of my kids will be living several grains of sand away from here and laugh at this thread once theyve deciphered it.
What a great opportunity for the hoax of the millenium. Set up a transmitter on the moon to spoof the listeners on earth at just the right time.
It is OK to dream. But I live in the cold hard world of reality. Scientists are wrong often. Engineers like me do well by avoiding mistakes and using truckloads of common sense.
Thanks Red Badger. Nice X-Planets topic, and it'll get the blood circulatin'...
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Drip Drip Disclosure
Perhaps they are waiting for humans to get a little more redundant.
Anyway, it’s like death, either there’s something
or there is nothing and if nothing there is nothing
to worry about.
If there is something, we’ll find out later.
There is a black hole in some galaxy which is like 35 Billion times bigger than our Sun, but it exerts no influence on planet earth because it is billions of light years away.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that...
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