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And i really don't believe we'll ever have that technology, i'd love to be wrong and live forever somehow, but i doubt it.
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Denmark14978 Posts
And i really don't believe we'll ever have that technology, i'd love to be wrong and live forever somehow, but i doubt it. | ||
BluemoonSC
SoCal8907 Posts
On December 12 2014 17:33 icystorage wrote: it always makes me sad that i'll probably be long dead by the time humans have interstellar travel Edit: hey 3 furions in a row! yeah but think about it this way. I think we will be dead before the next war breaks out..or at least old enough to not have to serve in the army if a draft is required. that's sorta pessimistic though, huh? | ||
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United Kingdom3867 Posts
As someone who actually works in a biological science field I'm skeptical. But it's still interesting. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 12 2014 21:15 BluemoonSC wrote: yeah but think about it this way. I think we will be dead before the next war breaks out..or at least old enough to not have to serve in the army if a draft is required. that's sorta pessimistic though, huh? I kind of thought that two, but then my brother when on two tours, so not so much. I don't think we will see a draft again, but war could easily happen again in the next ten years. | ||
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icystorage
Jollibee19343 Posts
here's to hoping we become a type-1 civilization in our lifetime at least! | ||
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Denmark1037 Posts
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
On December 12 2014 23:43 beef42 wrote: Would prefer the mind-machine interface. Living forever in a body seems pretty impractical compared to living as a sentient machine. Think about it - the virtual world would be indistinguishable from the real one, and in that world we would be as omnipotent gods. Is It Really Living When Everything You Experience Isn't Real? | ||
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Jollibee19343 Posts
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Germany22369 Posts
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Northern Ireland22206 Posts
On December 12 2014 23:48 Plansix wrote: Folks should read the Risen Empire if you want to see a world where immortality has become the standard. Plus is the one of the few space stories that uses sand as a viable weapon in space, because everything goes really, really fast in space. sand as kinetic weaponry? interesting | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
Anything works in space. Wasting resources on explosive ordnance is quite frankly retarded in space-space combat. No amount of armor can withhold a ton of shit going at you at speed close to light. The problem with sand is it's weight is very small, as is density. Lead shavings, diamond dust, now that would fuck you up. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
They use it in ship combat, because both ships are moving amazingly fast relative to each other, so the sand is moving at that same speed. They don't shoot it, they just put in the path of the enemy ship like a cloud. Anything does damage if you are moving a thousands of relative miles an hour. There is also a pretty amazing part where a pilot of a nanobot is trying to land a listening device on a glass of water, while avoiding a defensive nanocloud. The whole two book series is a lot of really fun ideas about how tech would work in a crazy future. Edit: The sand was used to destroy the senors of the enemy ship, which are more fragile. They had lasers and other more traditional weapons as well. | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
Why the fuck are the sensors exposed during combat thou? It's not like the amount of radiation and what not a ship would leave in vacuum can't be detected through some armor. | ||
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Brazil18828 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 13 2014 00:14 Qbek wrote: I could go on and on about stuff like this but I've got better things to do, like laying in bed listening to music. Why the fuck are the sensors exposed during combat thou? It's not like the amount of radiation and what not a ship would leave in vacuum can't be detected through some armor. Its space, there is a lot of nothing out there. You need sensors to see and target. Plus both sides are throwing up shit to get fuck with the other sides ability to see them. If your senors are perfectly protected, your blind. | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
On December 13 2014 00:23 Plansix wrote: Its space, there is a lot of nothing out there. You need sensors to see and target. Plus both sides are throwing up shit to get fuck with the other sides ability to see them. If your senors are perfectly protected, your blind. You use sensors to detect when the danger is close and hide them reactively. Not like a ship in space can do a u-turn, you don't need to see them 24/7 | ||
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