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Building a flying saucer
Re: Building a flying saucer
by Cog » Mon 19 Oct 2015, 23:55:10
When the OP is flying around in his saucer won't we look like the foolish ones.
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by Plantagenet » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 00:08:45
Its turning out to be much too complicated for us to figure out here how to build a flying saucer.
I suggest we just build a teleportation machine, send Jody Foster to the alien planet with the megastructure recently discovered by the Kepler telescope, and ask them how to do it....
When you et there, ask them how to build a flying saucer!
I suggest we just build a teleportation machine, send Jody Foster to the alien planet with the megastructure recently discovered by the Kepler telescope, and ask them how to do it....
When you et there, ask them how to build a flying saucer!
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by SeaGypsy » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 00:21:15
Teleporting is massively underrated, by far the safest & fastest & most efficient form of transport, discovered by cavemen & still works as good.
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by Tanada » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 00:39:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'T')anada has always been gender non specific in these forums. The hot black chick icon & brainpower combo is pretty potent anyway, used to be her (my guess) trademark.
Is the OP going to put up some comparison UFOs we need to compete with?
Is the OP going to put up some comparison UFOs we need to compete with?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alfred Tennyson', 'W')e are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by Gsearch » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 04:15:40
Humanity is at the whim of technological progress. People who do not have the foresight and the flexibility to adapt to the future will be left behind or below. History says so. Prehistory says so. The system is going nowhere but foreward and we are all at its mercy.
If you do not figure out how to build one of these devices, among others, your entire life will be a waste. You will have gone through the world blindfolded during a transition to the next great technological revolution. Your life will be summed up by what it could have been.
If you want to remain and become immortal, you have to try to figure this out and make serious efforts to create it. Time is running out and we have a lot of catching up to do.
If you do not figure out how to build one of these devices, among others, your entire life will be a waste. You will have gone through the world blindfolded during a transition to the next great technological revolution. Your life will be summed up by what it could have been.
If you want to remain and become immortal, you have to try to figure this out and make serious efforts to create it. Time is running out and we have a lot of catching up to do.
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by davep » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 05:09:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you do not figure out how to build one of these devices, among others, your entire life will be a waste. You will have gone through the world blindfolded during a transition to the next great technological revolution. Your life will be summed up by what it could have been.
I'm more a fan of "appropriate" technology http://journeytoforever.org/at.html.
And rather than speeding towards the unintended consequences of yet more techno-fixes, we should be addressing the damage we've done to the planet by existing technology. Your statement ignores the fact that people may think slightly differently to yourself and that their motivations can exist and be relevant.
What we think, we become.
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Re: Building a flying saucer
by Gsearch » Tue 20 Oct 2015, 14:51:27
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And rather than speeding towards the unintended consequences of yet more techno-fixes, we should be addressing the damage we've done to the planet by existing technology.
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And rather than speeding towards the unintended consequences of yet more techno-fixes, we should be addressing the damage we've done to the planet by existing technology.
A righteous cause, but utterly feckless. The world is growing exponentially. China and India have reached maybe 20% of their total growth capacity. Africa less than 1%. The enormity of the problem is way greater the viable solutions you can come up with.
Even if you managed to magically trap carbon, there are a million other problems that come with this growth phenomenon. There are only two possibilities:
1.) Environmentalist fears were wrong or overexaggerated, and Earth can support many billions more middle class people, albeit with consequences, or;
2.) Earth/civilization will suffer massive catastrophes due to growth.
Either way, none of any of the solutions to the growth problem will mean anything.
All that matters is that you take the opportunity to get hold of exotic new technologies that will increase the chances of your own survival. Earth is but one of many inhabitable places in the Universe and the importance of being able to get off of it cannot be underestimated.
The good news is that nothing could be more environmentally friendly than high-performance aircraft and spaceships which operate on cosmic energy and electromagnetism, and which have zero carbon emissions. Help find out how to create them so we can escape the looming bottleneck and get off of this miserable piece of shit planet, who's very abundance was the source of our problems.
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