@sammosk Scientists have found and identified many Earth like planets, the next step is building a craft that is capable of travelling faster than the speed of light so we can go take a look. One of the biggest arguments against extraterrestrial visitation today is the fact that light speed travel is not possible. This isn’t only untrue, but there are multiple ways a craft could travel throughout the universe in short periods of time. There are shortcuts through space, wormholes, bending space, the Alcubierre Drive and more.
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I think it's a problem of materials and energy sources at this point, once we crack the exotic sources we should be okay to push for the highest of speeds.
Yes I'm agreed with your points of view!!
Don't forget the inertial dampening fields, we'll need those too for use in conjunction with stopping or else the last thing that goes through your mind will be the back of your head, and you strike me as a being who prefers their existence to be a more 3D than 2D experience ;)
Well lets not let a bit of squish get in the way of a good time. :'D
I'm thinking as an early method would be using hyper oxygenated fluid and submerging the body entirely in it, this would allow for some serious g forces. :D
A mass large enough to be a craft traveling at near light speed momentum stopping in the kind of timeframe expected would probably produce an itty-bitty baby neutron star and an instantaneous catastrophic dispersion of energy and potentially material, aka: nova
:]The brilliant xkcd has written a hilarious hypothetical scenario in which we are guided through in detail exactly what would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light - must read.
Yeah by serious G forces I wasn't thinking near light speed, that's for sure, to do that we'd need structural integrity fields, massive forcefields to divert space dust and micrometeorites out of the way, internal damping fields to maintain integrity of the individuals inside and stop them from pasting themselves on the nearest bulkhead, or some kind of space warping business. Unfortunately all a long way off unless you count an electromagnetically generated plasma sheath as a forcefield. :D
I'm glad I stumbled onto this post, been really enjoying this.
Going to read it now. This should be amazing.
Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city. The baseball diamond is now a sizable crater, centered a few hundred feet behind the former location of the backstop.
Bahahaha, yes, this is something I can get behind.
I think my favourite part is:
Followed by:
Railgun x 1000. hahahahahaha.