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| Well, another upgrade...Athlon 1.33Ghz...not bad. I find that I can crank a WU every 8 hours now with the graphics turned off, 11 hours with them on. I think I've got the fever. All I want is to make that WU run faster. What will we feel when that non-terrestrial signal is discovered? What will that signal be? Maybe some Alien TV show, "I love Zorg the Conqueror" or Mork and Meeburb?" Will it be another civilizations timid steps at beginning radio broadcasts? An Alien Marconi that figured out how to harness those "Magical" energy fields. Maybe it will be a space-faring race that has been observing us for some time. Or next natural progression will be to the stars. If you follow my link to http://www.elysianvisions.com/integrity/warp.html you'll see what the current warp theory is showing as speeds and distances. Currently, the speed designated as Standard Orbit is all we can manage. If we could get to 1/4 of the speed of light...what wondrous door that would open. It would open Mars and to moon to colonization, Pluto to exploration and maybe we will discover that mysterious planet X that sits just outside the known solar system. I wonder, what lurks on Planet X? Let's go see. |
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| ET has to exist. What a sad though to be alone. If we are as smart as it gets, this galaxy is in trouble. I believe, however, there is danger in discovery. Most likely any species that we find farther from the glactic center will be an older race, exponentially more advanced and those closer to the center will be younger and less advanced, probably unable to make contact. Sitting and listening is great, but it's nothing compared to actually going and looking. Current technology limits our ability to travel, even a manned mission to Mars is unlikely to be sucessful given the relatively slow rockets we have. As you are undoubtedly aware, until we find a propulsion method capable of hurling us at or near the speed of light, the Jovian planets are completely off limits. For deep space missions, nothing less than 10x Light Speed will do. (Don't start thinking that that's the magical "Warp 10" that startrek uses, http://www.elysianvisions.com/integrity/warp.html has the currently accepted warp field theory.) 10X light speed is Warp 2 on TV. Warp 9 is 1,516 times light speed and warp 9.9999 is 199,516 times light speed. That's quite a jump for just a .9999 increase but it is only a TV show... I think they came up with good ideas in that show however. Bypassing Einstien's theory that an object cannot accelerate to the spped of light without obtaining infinate mass, by simply stepping out of normal space first. Another good idea is to harness energy from something that is already moving at the speed of light, catching a light wave or something. Maybe some day we'll even be able to fold space and simply step from your living room to the surface of a terra-formed Mars as easily as you would walk into the bathroom. For now, however, we have enough problems here. We don't need any from out there. www.badastronomy.com also has some great information about science myths. |
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