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To: Monkey Face
X-Files was sort of a "well maybe" to me. But I never missed B5. Not even when they were showing it at three on Saturday morning.
This was when I was young and very poor. I could barely afford the $5.00 garage sale TV. Even if someone had given me a VCR I couldn't have afforded to buy tapes for it.
(There is something wrong with that last sentence but I am too punchy to figure out what it is.)
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:56:56 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
"... the drive itself would have to sit either outside the warp bubble or just on it's membrane ..." This is essentially the vision I had for my version of a flying saucer.
I imagined a central galactic empire sending out thousands of sub-light ships for exploration, simply based on magneto-gravitics.
Being less comfortable with the possibility of ftl drives, I have used only two types in my stories.
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:57:46 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
Work...the curse of the drinking class...;o]
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:58:15 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(The REAL sister of the REAL redhead. REALLY!)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
He has turned out to be quite a talent in a lot of ways, and he is generous, as well. He's one of my favorite actors.
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:59:12 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(The REAL sister of the REAL redhead. REALLY!)
To: NicknamedBob
Is that only on Sci-Fi Channel?
4,665
posted on
07/26/2006 3:59:20 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Are you up in the night again? What ice cream are they inventing that makes you keep such long, strange hours?
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:00:35 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(The REAL sister of the REAL redhead. REALLY!)
To: NicknamedBob
I imagined a central galactic empire sending out thousands of sub-light ships for exploration, simply based on magneto-gravitics. A central galactic empire is plausible with subluminal craft - the stars in the Bulge are a fraction of a light year apart from each other.
Being less comfortable with the possibility of ftl drives, I have used only two types in my stories.
I think the hyperspace theory of Babylon 5 is a possible alternative to warp drive - quite possible that there is a higher plane of space-time.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:05:07 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Monkey Face
Not to mention the fact that he's an unapologetic retro-male!!
4,668
posted on
07/26/2006 4:06:06 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"Is that only on Sci-Fi Channel?" I think so.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:06:51 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
"I think the hyperspace theory of Babylon 5 is a possible alternative to warp drive - quite possible that there is a higher plane of space-time." All faster than light drives involve some form of hyperspace, subspace, or a higher plane of space-time.
Heinlein developed one that went sideways through hyperspace.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:10:07 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing wrong with being "retro-male." I admire a man who is not afraid to say what he thinks, is wise enough to know when to say it, and tender enough to apologize for errors.
I can't stand wussy men. But I don't want butt-heads, either.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:11:19 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(The REAL sister of the REAL redhead. REALLY!)
To: NicknamedBob
All faster than light drives involve some form of hyperspace, subspace, or a higher plane of space-time. Ah.. that is true - wormholes, for example, are considered as bridging hyperspace.
Heinlein developed one that went sideways through hyperspace.
Cosmic-crab drive? ;)
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:13:11 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Monkey Face
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:18:41 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
"Cosmic-crab drive?" Essentially. It allowed time to pass in one universe while it remained static in another.
By the way, I need to amend this statement: "All faster than light drives involve some form of hyperspace ..."
I should have said most. I just invented a system of faster-than-light "drive" based on mathematically inverting the Universe.
Similar to Q's "just change the gravitational constant of the universe", it involves making a "map" of the Universe, exchanging the map for the Universe, adjusting your position, and then switching back. Presto! -- You're in a different place!
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:20:21 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
To: Monkey Face
We bought another small dairy. Mom and Pop have been swallowed up by a heartless conglomerate!
Ok Mom and Pop actually sold the business about ten years ago and since then it has been under three different managements with the last owner currently in jail for some extremely creative bookkeeping but some how when I put it that way we don't sound that evil.
Anyhow I have to split my time between my current job and setting up the accounting department in our new acquisition. That means that Monday and Tuesday I am about five hours north of here and will be doing this commute for at least another two months.
I hate being on the road like this.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:21:42 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
To: NicknamedBob
Essentially. It allowed time to pass in one universe while it remained static in another. Ah.. it's a variant of the Twins Paradox, though probably in reverse, if I'm reading that right.
Similar to Q's "just change the gravitational constant of the universe", it involves making a "map" of the Universe, exchanging the map for the Universe, adjusting your position, and then switching back. Presto! -- You're in a different place!
Hmmm... could work.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:24:20 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Awjeez, Teddy...no wonder you're so raggedy in your posting. Poor baby! *hugs* I hope the work load eases soon.
4,677
posted on
07/26/2006 4:26:02 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(The REAL sister of the REAL redhead. REALLY!)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
No, it has nothing to do with the twins paradox, thank God! (People get so confused over that!)
It's just two Universes that exist at right angles to each other. Time in one Universe is a scalar value in another. It's very handy if you can switch back and forth beween them.
Check with Heinlein. He's the one with the glib explanation.
4,678
posted on
07/26/2006 4:29:59 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
To: Monkey Face
Howdy Monkey Face.
Little Ms. Jackie and I had to return another errant pooch home today.
Wasn't hard. His mom was out looking for him.
4,679
posted on
07/26/2006 4:30:01 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Very good article!
It is true most young men seem to be going to one extreme or the other.
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posted on
07/26/2006 4:31:25 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
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