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Believing aliens know of us or are remotely interested in who's going to win "I'm a Celebrity..." is at best delusional. |
I don't believe any intelligent life is remotely interested in I'm a Celeb.
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Islander wrote: | octopuses |
Ok, I need this settled once and for all - octopi? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Islander wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: |
Ok, I need this settled once and for all - octopi? |
Strictly speaking it should be octopodes but octopuses is the common usage. |
Pfft. Us intellectuals don't care for you commoners
It's quite interesting actually:
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MarJay wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: | I don't believe any intelligent life is remotely interested in I'm a Celeb. |
My other half is a member of Mensa. Lockdown does funny things to a person. She now stares into the middle distance and watches I'm a Celeb. |
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It's interesting that the conspiracy theorists believe in a community of super intelligent and advanced lifeforms from stars in the open cluster we know as the Pleiades or M45. |
That's near Rugby isn't it?
Not sure there're super intelligent and advanced life forms there... ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Ah, it all starts to make sense now ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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chickenstrip wrote: | Islander wrote: |
It's interesting that the conspiracy theorists believe in a community of super intelligent and advanced lifeforms from stars in the open cluster we know as the Pleiades or M45. |
That's near Rugby isn't it?
Not sure there're super intelligent and advanced life forms there... |
Being from Rugby, I can confirm the M45 is near Rugby, as are the M1, and M6.
To me, zero contact with extra-terrestrial life (note that I am completely disregarding all conspiracy theories as bull shit) just suggests to me that FTL (Faster than Light) travel is indeed impossible.
I've mentioned before the sheer scale of things. Certainly visiting planets in our solar system is possible within a life time (although there will be little or no life to see), to take the next step to Proxima centauri is not a step, nor a giant leap, but something much bigger.
If the earth and the Sun were just 1 metre apart, on that scale, proxima would be something like the distance from London to Oxford. It would take our fastest rockets 75,000 years to reach.
The solution obviously would be faster travel, but to even get near c requires immense force, tending to infinite as one become infinitesimally close to c. Also time starts doing very strange things at these extremes.
The lack of contact suggests that, like us, other life has not found away of dealing with this impossibility.
Note that the laws of Physics do not prohibit faster than light travel, providing that said entity is always travelling faster than light. It is the physical crossing of the barrier which is the impossibility. Such particles (tachyons) move backwards in time however, and have so far not been detected.
If I find some I will use them to send the lottery numbers to last week. |
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MCN wrote: | Star Trek transporter transformed 'solid' mass into photons and projected the photons to a target area where they were transformed back into thier former solid state.
Limitation is the number of white disks on the transporter deck. |
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I was thinking about Black Holes earlier...
If gravity is a product of time passing at a different speed for your feet relative to your head and such time deviation* is a product of mass warping space-time then a singularity isn't a hole to fall into that removes you from space as much as some sort of cosmic molasses that removes you from time. I suppose one could argue that if space-time is a unified thing than removing something from space (i.e. the 3 physical dimensions) is effectively the same as removing it from time (the 4th dimension) and visa versa
I find the concept of Hawking Radiation (that Black Holes can, in a way, evaporate) simple to grasp in principle but something tells me that quantum effects at the event horizon are far to convenient to be a thing. But hey, what do I know
Regarding FTL I think the best bet is to keep on plodding on with the LHC and really get to the bottom of how things work. I would imagine somehow temporarily shifting mass into a higher dimension might allow easier sub-light speeds.
The alternative is something like Altered Carbon where one dispenses with as much physical travel as possible.
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Well yes, it's a bit tricky getting experimental data out of a real black hole I don't think any of these analogues can prove Hawking Radiation but it at least it indicates it's an effect worth looking into and may help devise a clever way of detecting said effects
But back to FTL... it's a constant annoyance that whilst most tin-foil-hat wearers are concerned about bum rape (something Freudian going on there) the problem with aliens is they effectively prove FTL is easy-peasy. By no means does the human race know much about how the universe operates but we can be pretty certain the FTL is as non-trivial as time travel
Maybe we can picture space-time as a river: it can go fast and it can go slow but it goes in one direction. Can you make a river go uphill? "Of course, dead easy" says the lockkeeper but try and map that back and were talking a fundamental reconstruction of the universe ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Well yes, it's a bit tricky getting experimental data out of a real black hole I don't think any of these analogues can prove Hawking Radiation but it at least it indicates it's an effect worth looking into and may help devise a clever way of detecting said effects
But back to FTL... it's a constant annoyance that whilst most tin-foil-hat wearers are concerned about bum rape (something Freudian going on there) the problem with aliens is they effectively prove FTL is easy-peasy. By no means does the human race know much about how the universe operates but we can be pretty certain the FTL is as non-trivial as time travel
Maybe we can picture space-time as a river: it can go fast and it can go slow but it goes in one direction. Can you make a river go uphill? "Of course, dead easy" says the lockkeeper but try and map that back and were talking a fundamental reconstruction of the universe |
It's not unusual to use analogues to test an idea
The river, especially when talking about the time element, is the second law of thermodynamics - one of those deceptively simple laws that have massively profound implications. In its simplest form it states that heat always flows to cold. What that means is that entropy always increases and that's an important principle.
One of the things that the FTL believers never manage to explain (or understand) satisfactorily is the problem with micrometeoroids (dust) impacting their craft at superluminal velocity. At 99% of c a piece of dust with a mass of 5kg will impact with an energy of something like 0.6 kilotonnes of TNT. Now imagine that repeatedly and at even higher velocities...
At this point the conspiracy theorists will invoke physical principles we apparently can't understand because we're not advanced enough. Or just plain old "force shields man, force shields" |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 116 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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