While Donald Rumsfeld crewing a ship that would possibly be in charge of a first contact situation is, in my opinion, pretty much asking for the beginning of a genocidal war, there's a reason I chose to include it as the title of my post. After a theoretical physics paper presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics annual
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Of course, that means you can get anywhere in the galaxy in 2 years. A year to speed up, instantaneous travel, and a year to slow down...
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Of course, that assumes that tearing bits of the fabric of space up and moving them around doesn't cause any problems.
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Fear denies faith.
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
The Emperor protects.
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Upon reading the article, one the thing kept jumping into my head: Cthulhutech. If you're dropping a spaceship into a dimension where even the fundamentals of physics are different (which is pretty scary on its own: how might the human body hold up in a place like that? If the speed of light is increased, what else might be changed?), every sci-fi aliens flick ever made becomes possible, as well as Lovecraftian Horrors from Beyond the Void.
Also, how perfect is it that the only thing capable of powering such a spacecraft right now is called the Z machine? If that's not a prop from a bad movie, I don't know what is.
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WoW- My antidrug!
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