Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing.
Aemon Send a noteboard - 09/07/2012 04:13:02 PM
Well heck, you never know, physics gets some great stuff done but so does medicine, biological immortality isn't exactly a pipe dream. One thing worth remembering though is hat while light lag makes dialogue impractical, it doesn't make observation impractical, we really do have a pretty short reception range right now, we could easily expand that and tune into some alien cable 
Hm, well, I suppose that's true. I might yet live to see the little green men if doctors make me immortal. Thanks for giving me hope.
Oh, if we had any theories for doing FTL we'd dump money in it like crazy, gov't and private sector, we don't, and to be honest while I'd never say 'impossible' I really don't expect that to ever change. Right now I'd settle very happily for a functioning fusion reactor, that's the one that really opens windows up.
"Unlimited" energy would certainly change the world, but FTL would give us MORE worlds. Fusion is certainly the more realistic short term goal, but FTL is still where it's at.
TYC 8241 2652 - Alien Dyson Swarm?
- 08/07/2012 06:18:35 AM
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Nice post. Seeing things in space that we don't understand is awesome.
- 08/07/2012 07:39:41 AM
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Can you put the link in? Currently it just leads to your own post.
- 08/07/2012 10:30:51 AM
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Government conspiracy to suppress the truth...
- 08/07/2012 05:39:31 PM
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Why can't it be their home star?
- 08/07/2012 10:05:41 PM
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The star's only 10 million years old
- 09/07/2012 12:35:47 AM
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Evolution is environment-driven.
- 09/07/2012 09:31:25 AM
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I agree but 10 Mill is a short time
- 10/07/2012 05:34:36 AM
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Hmm, good point. Forgot to compare that with our sun's 4.6bn years... *NM*
- 10/07/2012 08:33:53 AM
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Yeah the numbers involved in astronomical stuff tend to throw ya, gets me all the time *NM*
- 11/07/2012 01:21:16 AM
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So it's nothing to do with the vacuum cleaners?
- 08/07/2012 09:01:58 PM
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Every time I google Dyson stuff I get little auto-google ads on those vacuums for the next week
- 08/07/2012 09:23:33 PM
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- 08/07/2012 09:23:33 PM
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This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing.
- 09/07/2012 05:27:30 AM
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Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing.
- 09/07/2012 06:47:43 AM
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No kidding; I want my expletive fusion reactor al-expletive-ready.
- 09/07/2012 07:19:14 AM
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Re: This kind of thing is fascinating. And depressing.
- 09/07/2012 04:13:02 PM
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I am a little confused why we would seek stars emitting tons of IR as evidence of Dyson Spheres.
- 09/07/2012 05:29:56 AM
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