Star Trek Nerds Unite

tonyb

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html

Interesting stuff here. Goes against conventional scientific wisdom....you mean science isn't always right ? lol. Ralphy boy can send Alice to the moon in 4 hours ? I want one for my Honda.

Also find it fascinating that this was invented 15 years ago.

Sci-fi Polk Guy

tonyb wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html

Interesting stuff here. Goes against conventional scientific wisdom....you mean science isn't always right ? lol. Ralphy boy can send Alice to the moon in 4 hours ? I want one for my Honda.

Also find it fascinating that this was invented 15 years ago.

That scenario reminds me of the whole cold fusion debate. It's a nice idea, but it is highly improbable that it can be attained.

mrbiron

^^^This guy knows!...He's got a space ship as an avatar. I keeed!

This line has me puzzled - "However scientists still have no idea how it actually works."

Nightfall

Here I thought we were going to have a TOS vs TNG debate.

Nightfall

mrbiron wrote: »

^^^This guy knows!...He's got a space ship as an avatar. I keeed!

Pffff. Space ship? You mean galaxy class star ship.

tonyb

I just find it interesting that this guy invents something that goes against all scientific wisdom.....and if it truly does work, will revolutionize space travel.

Isn't that how leaps and bounds are made in humanity ? By someone thinking outside the Box of conventional wisdom ? One has to think though, where did he get this idea from ? Just pop in his head one night while watching Dating Naked ? lol

Kurt300

tonyb wrote: »

I just find it interesting that this guy invents something that goes against all scientific wisdom.....and if it truly does work, will revolutionize space travel.

Isn't that how leaps and bounds are made in humanity ? By someone thinking outside the Box of conventional wisdom ? One has to think though, where did he get this idea from ? Just pop in his head one night while watching Dating Naked ? lol

Philo Farnsworth had the idea for television while plowing a field. And most people have epiphanies in the shower, so being naked does seem to help.

At constant acceleration, time dilation becomes a factor for theoretical interstellar travel using this drive. So it might even be possible to reach the stars without wormholes, given enough patience. Quite a game-changer - thank you for sharing.

tonyb

Kurt300 wrote: »

[ And most people have epiphanies in the shower, so being naked does seem to help.
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LOL....Don't know about any of you guys, but when I'm naked in the shower the last thing on my mind is a more efficient way to cut the lawn. Unless they make lawn mowers that look like Kate Upton. No epiphanies in the shower for me, just good old fashioned male stuff. lol

aprazer402

Preemptive removal.

MrBuhl

That there is damned cool stuff.

Sci-fi Polk Guy

tonyb wrote: »

Kurt300 wrote: »

[ And most people have epiphanies in the shower, so being naked does seem to help.
.

LOL....Don't know about any of you guys, but when I'm naked in the shower the last thing on my mind is a more efficient way to cut the lawn. Unless they make lawn mowers that look like Kate Upton. No epiphanies in the shower for me, just good old fashioned male stuff. lol

Sometimes, epiphanies do come at some odd times. My freshman year in college, I worked on a problem until I just got tired of it. I went to take a shower, and, while I was showering, the solution to the problem came to me when the problem wasn't even on my mind.

Sci-fi Polk Guy

DSkip wrote: »

Sci-fi Polk Guy wrote: »

Sometimes, epiphanies do come at some odd times. My freshman year in college, I worked on a problem until I just got tired of it. I went to take a shower, and, while I was showering, the solution to the problem came to me when the problem wasn't even on my mind.

You had to put in that much work to convince her to join you? She must've had a 'headache'.

You went waaay into the Delta quadrant with that one. It was a mathematics problem that was the headache, not a "her".

tonyb

Sci-fi Polk Guy wrote: »

DSkip wrote: »

Sci-fi Polk Guy wrote: »

Sometimes, epiphanies do come at some odd times. My freshman year in college, I worked on a problem until I just got tired of it. I went to take a shower, and, while I was showering, the solution to the problem came to me when the problem wasn't even on my mind.

You had to put in that much work to convince her to join you? She must've had a 'headache'.

You went waaay into the Delta quadrant with that one. It was a mathematics problem that was the headache, not a "her".

Gotcha....how many beers did it take for her to find you attractive ? That's math....isn't it ? LOL

X Beers into 1 chick plus x amount of time to get it on.....minus her remembering your name = one fun night.

cnh

tonyb wrote: »

Kurt300 wrote: »

[ And most people have epiphanies in the shower, so being naked does seem to help.
.

LOL....Don't know about any of you guys, but when I'm naked in the shower the last thing on my mind is a more efficient way to cut the lawn. Unless they make lawn mowers that look like Kate Upton. No epiphanies in the shower for me, just good old fashioned male stuff. lol

I don't know Tony! I've been waiting for a grass hybrid that only grows to lawn mower height, stops, dies and regenerates for years. And I'm PRETTY SURE that can be genetically engineered at this point. But we aren't seeing it? Hmmmm!

I've read about EM drives before, certainly intriguing and seemingly "inexplicable" if we have to start positing sub-atomic particles popping in and out of existence? That doesn't mean that this doesn't work just that we can't explain it yet.

And speaking of that, do any of you have the following experience; you read a scientific explanation of some esoteric theory in particle physics, or rather, the layman's version that the scientist tries to convey. And you nod your head, yes, yes, yes, and then, in an instant, the scientist says something that makes no sense to you, that represents some crazy leap that he has NOT filled in or explained, but that he/she understands at some insanely abstract mathematical level of reality, and then concludes, and that's how it works, is? I can't tell you how many times I've been right there in the thick of things only to lose everything and throw up my hands. lol But this looks like a case where the "scientists" are throwing up their hands. And I'm tickled pink! It's a sweet revenge!

Kurt300

You mean, like this?

cnh

Kurt300 wrote: »

You mean, like this?

lol! That's perfect!

tonyb

Most scientists are governed by the laws of physics. Problem there is the laws of physics exist only to our understanding of them. How much more is there to physics that we have yet to discover and add to those laws.....or take away ?

I like the fact that one lone guy came up with this technology, something hundreds of brainiacs at MIT or Nasa couldn't do. I'd still like to know what this guy used as a template, what drove his brain to think this way ? I'd love to sit on a bar stool with this dude for a few hours.

Sometimes I wonder if there is some sort of divine intervention going on. It seems whenever mankind is at a tipping point in his evolution, someone invents something that propels the human race forward. Is this on purpose ? Where we are somehow given these things a little at a time to help us evolve ? Makes you think anyway. Almost like someone is watching our progress and saying...."OK, time to give them this." Hard to believe in less than 70 years we went from the horse and buggy to space travel and landing on the moon, when the previous 1000 years yielded little.

Or is it a simple matter of unlocking our own brains capacity ? I dunno....just seems that every so often mankind makes leaps forward for no apparent reason other than to satisfy our own curiosity.

Kurt300

tonyb wrote: »

Hard to believe in less than 70 years we went from the horse and buggy to space travel and landing on the moon, when the previous 1000 years yielded little.

Tony, exactly. That's unfortunately why I tend to assign such admittedly large values to the probability of adverse events based on man-made technological precipices in the next 100 years.