@scottalanmiller "The lab team". LOL. What's Mike doing now?

Oh, and AJ... it's "Gollum", not Golem.

@scottalanmiller said:

Have you never read the books?

They made a book out of that?!?

Yeah, I'm not allowed to say anything. She gets all cranky on me, so you go ahead and enjoy.

This post should be moderated. The innuendos are just too much. And where is PSX when you need him?

Nasty. I'm not eating bugs or spiders. In Africa, I ate zero bugs (on purpose). I know there were things in the bread and in the rice and in any pasta I had, but that is where I drew the line. grubs, termites caterpillars... NOPE.

Very cool. Not a chance of that with our dogs though, they don't even like to shake.

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Haven't you ever seen the programs on Discovery where the Indonesians are snacking on huge bowls of fried tarantulas?

ok, so I watched that. I am not sure what or why that was, but... I don't even know what to follow that with. However, there was a bit of redemption that followed: this was on the screen of "recommendations" when it ended. Worth the watch...

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No harm done. I agree with that point, but I also don't believe it has much relevance with the magnitude by which we can't approach the limiting factor. A little off, sure. Thousands of times? I just can't take that seriously as a "well, I'm sure we'll have that figured out in a couple years" sort of thing.

Yes, I get that. Still it has nothing to do with this discussion. We have a pretty good understanding of the world around us today. That was not the case 150 years ago. I'm sure we think we know some things that will be proven wrong years from now. At one time the world was flat (not everyone believed that, but it was the prevailing theory of its time). I'm sure we have something we believe firmly that will be proven false with better information. That being said, what does any of that have to do with the speed of light? Teleportation is within the realm of becoming a reality. Bionic implants and the like are on the doorstep. Cloaking devices, too. Cold fusion is even in the news again. Still, what do we know of that can travel faster than light? Oh yeah... nothing. The fundamental concepts on which modern physics is built doesn't leave much hope for travel beyond light-speed. But that's not even my point. We're not talking about going faster than light. We're talking about going thousands of times faster than light. Unless you have some pixie dust up your sleeve, I don't see that as worth even discussing, at least not in any kind of constructive way.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@art_of_shred said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, it was absolutely crazy and terrifying.

Which is why (at least I think) the phrase "Flying by the seat of your pants" was coined....

Long / Deep space exploration is impractical because of the amount of fuel, water and Oxygen that would need to be bottled and hauled with. You'd have to build a Bio-sphere type system.. a 'Mini Earth'

But I'm no rocket scientist..

...not to mention the real distances you're talking about. Our movies today have our minds so misguided in terms of what deep space is really like. All of these Star Trek images of hopping around different galaxies is absolutely ridiculous. The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across, and we're about 26,000 light years from the edge. That means that you could travel at light speed for 25,000 years and not reach the edge. Our recorded history is roughly 6,000 years. It would take almost 5 times that at light-speed travel just to get to the closest exit from our galaxy (of course, that's edge-on)! So, unless we can figure out how to go thousands of times faster than light speed, or learn how to create wormholes (which, of course are only theoretical to begin with) with known locations on either end, the whole ball of wax is kind of absurd. But don't let facts and logic throw you off course.

Manned flight was ridiculous back before December 17, 1903 too What makes something seem ridiculous to our knowledge now could in fact become reality in the future.

Yeah, well, we're not talking about mimicking a bird's ability to fly. We're talking about moving much, much faster than anything in the known universe is capable of doing. That's a little bit different.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, it was absolutely crazy and terrifying.

Which is why (at least I think) the phrase "Flying by the seat of your pants" was coined....

Long / Deep space exploration is impractical because of the amount of fuel, water and Oxygen that would need to be bottled and hauled with. You'd have to build a Bio-sphere type system.. a 'Mini Earth'

But I'm no rocket scientist..

...not to mention the real distances you're talking about. Our movies today have our minds so misguided in terms of what deep space is really like. All of these Star Trek images of hopping around different galaxies is absolutely ridiculous. The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across, and we're about 26,000 light years from the edge. That means that you could travel at light speed for 25,000 years and not reach the edge. Our recorded history is roughly 6,000 years. It would take almost 5 times that at light-speed travel just to get to the closest exit from our galaxy (of course, that's edge-on)! So, unless we can figure out how to go thousands of times faster than light speed, or learn how to create wormholes (which, of course are only theoretical to begin with) with known locations on either end, the whole ball of wax is kind of absurd. But don't let facts and logic throw you off course.

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Think of Christopher Columbus and discovery of the New World.. Where would we Americans be had he not ventured into the unknown and the dangerous waters of monsters and myth.

We'd be living in Europe without the weight of the guilt of exploration through genocide

Well, I don't like Europe and I have no weight of guilt over some genocide that happened 400 years ago.

I haven't heard any stats on it, but I am guessing that has to work nearly 100% of the time. Great tutorial!

happened to me last night, but a log out and login fixed it... hasn't returned

I actually have virtually no experience with it, but may be somewhat interested...

Thanks, AJ.

Did you just say "gobbly gook"? What the heck is this world coming to? It's regardless, not irregardless, moot point, not mute point, and that would be gobbledy-gook.