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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
On April 06 2009 11:35 FragKrag wrote: Eh? With nuclear pulse engines, we can get pretty far (and Anti-matter drives if that ever happens). Hubbert Peak | ||
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Murkyith14
United States111 Posts
On April 06 2009 11:04 wurm wrote: Did they find the Restaurant? lol Haha. I doubt it since the restuarant is at the end of the universe time wise  | ||
micronesia
United States24671 Posts
On April 06 2009 11:35 FragKrag wrote: Eh? With nuclear pulse engines, we can get pretty far (and Anti-matter drives if that ever happens). Oh yea and http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83816#18 | ||
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ZzZzAnG
United States109 Posts
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jinwoooooooo
United States176 Posts
On April 06 2009 11:19 taohiker wrote: Kind of depressing. It's depressing to me as well not only because of how little we know about the universe, but the fact that we as individual human beings are completely insignificant in the whole of the universe. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
On April 06 2009 12:37 micronesia wrote: Oh yea and http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83816#18 Yeah, but who says we won't learn more ;p Though of course, at our technology (or the technology for the next 1k years) it isn't possible, but eventually we will get off. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
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micronesia
United States24671 Posts
On April 06 2009 14:41 FragKrag wrote: Yeah, but who says we won't learn more ;p Though of course, at our technology (or the technology for the next 1k years) it isn't possible, but eventually we will get off. If you can find a safe way to accelerate a human at much greater than 1 g for a long period of time, then you have a shot (given special relativity). I'm not optimistic though =( | ||
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
On April 06 2009 14:15 jinwoooooooo wrote: It's depressing to me as well not only because of how little we know about the universe, but the fact that we as individual human beings are completely insignificant in the whole of the universe. So true. Our planet is only one of 8 in the solar system and there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Then when you consider that there could be hundreds of billions of galaxies...suddenly your "problems" don't seem so important anymore. | ||
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Sadist
United States7219 Posts
On April 06 2009 23:35 ghostWriter wrote: So true. Our planet is only one of 8 in the solar system and there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Then when you consider that there could be hundreds of billions of galaxies...suddenly your "problems" don't seem so important anymore. we are significant because we have consciousness and can explore. Sure there are probably crazy alien civilazations out there but that doesnt mean we are insignificant. Read "Contact" by Carl Sagan.....not the movie........ its way > the movie. Ill go with Neil deGrasse Tyson on this one on feeling large and not insignificant in the universe. "Particularly when you realize that the very atoms that are your body… were forged in the centers of stars in our galaxy, stars that then exploded at the ends of their lives, scattering these enriched ingredients to gas clouds that would later form stars and planets and people." | ||
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poilord
Germany3252 Posts
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R3condite
Korea (South)1541 Posts
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
On April 07 2009 00:30 Sadist wrote: we are significant because we have consciousness and can explore. Sure there are probably crazy alien civilazations out there but that doesnt mean we are insignificant. Read "Contact" by Carl Sagan.....not the movie........ its way > the movie. Ill go with Neil deGrasse Tyson on this one on feeling large and not insignificant in the universe. "Particularly when you realize that the very atoms that are your body… were forged in the centers of stars in our galaxy, stars that then exploded at the ends of their lives, scattering these enriched ingredients to gas clouds that would later form stars and planets and people." From an astronomical point of view, humans aren't really worth much. We have been on the Earth, a tiny, insignificant rock in a solar system on the outskirts of one out of billions of galaxies. We have been on the Earth for a few million years at most. There are still plenty of mysteries in the universe that exist that we haven't discovered and maybe are impossible to fathom at all using our limited brains. Sure we can think, but who's to say we are unique? | ||
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Sadist
United States7219 Posts
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
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Chef
10810 Posts
On April 07 2009 05:35 Sadist wrote: we are unique in our own small corner of the universe. No other animal known to man has been able to discover what we have. Thats pretty unique to me. Perhaps the animals that have are smart enough not to want to be known to us  They wouldn't exactly be blessed with any human rights. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
If you can find a safe way to accelerate a human at much greater than 1 g for a long period of time, then you have a shot (given special relativity). I'm not optimistic though =( Don't destroy my hopes you fag! We'll find a way ;p On April 07 2009 05:16 ghostWriter wrote: From an astronomical point of view, humans aren't really worth much. We have been on the Earth, a tiny, insignificant rock in a solar system on the outskirts of one out of billions of galaxies. We have been on the Earth for a few million years at most. There are still plenty of mysteries in the universe that exist that we haven't discovered and maybe are impossible to fathom at all using our limited brains. Sure we can think, but who's to say we are unique? It doesn't really matter how long we have been on the earth, but rather what we discover, and discovering what we have in such a short amount of time makes us pretty significant. Yeah, there are mysteries, but without mysteries, where is the excitement? | ||
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jinwoooooooo
United States176 Posts
On April 07 2009 05:35 Sadist wrote: we are unique in our own small corner of the universe. No other animal known to man has been able to discover what we have. Thats pretty unique to me. But more likely than not, there are many worlds in this universe just like ours that think the same exact thing. It's like this. Imagine a room filled with blind men who have never encountered another human being in their entire lifetimes. Each of these individuals would believe he is the only person in the room (let alone the world) yet there are many others just like him all around. It's a scary thought. | ||
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Jamaica1787 Posts
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