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#1 Not So Free Chat » Long time no see » 2021-06-22 17:00:20

smurf975
Replies: 4

Hiya folks,

I just wanted to say hi. I found this website again when searching the internet for my username. I see that I last visited this site in 2006. That can be correct as around that time I got a new job and was pretty busy with that.

It's nice to see that in the last 15 years the website is still running and even my login still works. Good work admins!!!

In the coming days/weeks I will browse through the forum and see what y'all have been talking about the past 15 years.

Greetings

#4 Re: Not So Free Chat » Exploding ball of methane » 2005-01-14 16:35:38

Well its like me saying in the year 2003: "The changes of a tsunami  in the Indian ocean and devistating many nations is next to nothing, so lets save the money that we wanted to spend on the early warning system."

#5 Re: Not So Free Chat » Exploding ball of methane » 2005-01-13 13:05:46

Your "theory" is simply not grounded in reality at all. There is no possible chance that deep impact will threat the Earth. None. Zero.

Next you are going to say the Roswell incident never happened. yikes

#6 Re: Human missions » ESA - Aurora Program » 2004-12-31 11:23:48

I read that for example every 10.000 euros spend on ESA creates 30.000 euros worth of high tech jobs. Notice high tech jobs as that what most modern western countries want to excell in.

To date, the return on investments in the space industry has been good. A survey commissioned by ESA in 1997 showed the direct economic return from the Ariane programmes to be in the ratio of 1 to 4, that is, each participant country obtained three times its initial investment through contracts awarded to its industry.

Taken from http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Laun … .html]here

#7 Re: Human missions » Has Dr. Zubrin Addressed Mars Direct Objections? - A few questions? » 2004-12-01 08:29:05

I don't think its a battlestar Galactica design.

They will use a heavy lifter to lift the big parts into LEO and smaller rockets for others. It's really like the building of the ISS. Only now they are thinking of using the Energia instead of the space shuttle and this is more cost effective. And besides Zubrin's plan uses a http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ares.htm]modified shuttle launcher.

#8 Re: Human missions » Has Dr. Zubrin Addressed Mars Direct Objections? - A few questions? » 2004-11-30 22:41:34

The ESA will revive the Energia rocket for its space program. Read ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/aurora/Human … on.pdf]the executive final report summary. (Its a 40 page pdf) Read the chapter "Launchers" (6.3).

#10 Re: Human missions » Amazon CEO Wants to Go Into Space on Own Rocket - ommerical space flight is » 2004-11-11 04:50:03

Engineers at Blue Origin, a Seattle start-up company funded by Bezos, are working to build low-cost vehicles that would send passengers into space for short flights.

"Then you would proceed from there to other steps, such as perhaps orbital space flights," Bezos told Reuters on Tuesday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … os_dc]Read more

#11 Re: Mars Rovers / University Rover Challenge » Simulation of Intelligent Robotic Colony » 2004-11-06 20:29:31

I'm not a programmer, but used to program a lot when younger, and loved it. I even learned myself (fairly basic) cobol programming, from reading listings, just for kicks, took me less than a day.
But then I had a period in my life I just absolutely loathed computers, saw them as overrated, boring, intrusive soulles,.... machines. Started aroudn the time the first PC-XT came out, and no, that was no coincidence! What I saw was a horribly expensive, underperforming machine (it was slower than the Z80's based machines, sigh,) taking over the world, making computers  an uninspiring 'desk-thing,' ugh!

Fastforward to the end of the 90's i got hooked again, but never got into programming anymore. Too much choice!

I'm half considering to taking up Smalltalk, though. Now you can find free versions, it's soooo poweful, and still elegant....

Perhaps http://www.ruby-lang.org/]then Ruby is more your cup of tea?

#12 Re: Mars Rovers / University Rover Challenge » Simulation of Intelligent Robotic Colony » 2004-11-06 12:31:44

I think the ability to i/f with different programminglanguages is a real boon (not that *I* am a programmer, heehee)

Some stuff I tried that crashd on 1.9,, seems to work ok now, great.

You should try Python, its not hard to learn. There are a lot of free online books and tutorials for it. With some effort you could learn it in a weekend. See http://www.python.org/doc/]here python documentation.

#14 Re: Life on Mars » Ancient fungus' revived' in lab - 180-430,000 years old! » 2004-10-21 09:50:18

There should be good science fiction in this.
Imagine intelligent spider creatures living inside the lava tubes, hungry, prowling at night, eating all but one of the settlers who is infected with Martian Spider eggs. Returning to Earth, the spiders hatch and the IQ of Earth Spiders is raised by mating with the Martian Spiders. Out comes Spider Woman !
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Producing nanotube spider webs, the human spiders create a space elevator and entangle the solar system into one large spider web, devouring alien starships.

Was there not a 5 part movie about this? Alien?

Actually if you have seen the cartoon version of Starship Troopers you would have seen your idea. In the cartoons the insects like race merge with other lifeforms and take the best of their dna's but still be under influence of the hive queen. This also allows them to adept to a specifics planets life conditions and diseases.

#15 Re: Life on Mars » Ancient fungus' revived' in lab - 180-430,000 years old! » 2004-10-21 07:39:41

Oxygen on Earth caused an extinction, and only some anaerobic bacteria survived.
If the bacteria were deadly, such as the Ebola virus; the killing of the host, quickly, would prevent it from spreading. Maximum  damage would be done by a rodent spread bacteria, or a life style virus, such as aids.
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Bring some lab mice to Mars to test for virulent organisms ?
And after the Martian life forms prove save, delicacies ?

Well if it is a virus it can merge with a bacteria and create more lethal versions of it self. Anyway, the chicken flu also created some mass hysteria although it was a bit exaggerated IMHO.

Basically I think this science is as dangerous nuclear technology (actually there are more risks then nuclear tech but its an example), with that I mean that in general it works and everyone is safe and happy but mistakes can happen.

And BTW, it need not to kill humans to be dangerous, it could be something that kills crops or life stocks or just kills or out performers plankton in the ocean and it's not eatable by lifeforms higher up in the chain.

For me its possibly like introducing rabbits, cats and other non local animals in Australia.

#16 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Fingers of God - The Big Bangs in trouble! » 2004-10-20 01:47:42

I could have told you THAT!

The big bang is just a blackhole punctering the fabric of space.

/me just kidding of course.

#17 Re: Life on Mars » Ancient fungus' revived' in lab - 180-430,000 years old! » 2004-10-20 01:44:58

Is it a smart thing to do? I mean mars rocks returning missions will be sterialized. So what about eons old lifeforms?

#18 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Hyper Space - Is it possible? » 2004-10-19 13:45:23

Before I forget, Smurf975, I've long admired your sig. ... it's a beauty! (Should have mentioned it sooner but always got side-tracked.

No big deal, I picked it up at some Russian site that spits out sigs. I found it very real for me. smile

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Maybe if you would talk about, something like 14 billion years and x days and x hours after the big bang. As that would be universal time not? Or like in star trek, star date 45630.23 (or something).

#19 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Hyper Space - Is it possible? » 2004-10-17 01:13:46

Let's assume the clocks on the planets are synchronised. I'm on Earth and I send an instant 'sub-space frequency' message to my friend, Bill, on AC3 at exactly 1pm. Bill receives it (4 light years away) at exactly 1pm. It's a unidirectional signal, using quantum entangled particles, so nobody but the person I'm sending it to can receive it.
   The people on board the ships have no idea a message has been sent, nor any idea it's been received. Everyone goes about their business, albeit in a different reference frame on the ships.
   Where's the problem?

I am assuming that if subspace frequency messages exist in one reference frame, then it must be possible for them to also exist in other reference frames.  If all of the FTL communicators are in the same reference frame then I don't think there will be any violations in causality.  There will also be no violation in causality if there is absolutely no interaction between the ships and the planets, or if the ships are sufficiently far away from the planets.  There would not be a violation in causality every time FTL communication happen.

However, the point is that with multiple communicators operating in different reference frames, it would be possible to cause a violation in causality to happen.  This gets back to my thought experiment.  You send a message to Bill at 1 PM and it arrives at 1PM.  However, since the people on the ships are in a different reference frame, they think that the message was sent at 1PM and arrived at noon.  Bill decides to inform the ships about the message at 1:01 planet time, 12:01 ship time.  The ships instantly converse with each other, so the other ship is also informed at 12:01 ship time.  However, since the planets are in the other reference frame, they think that the ships sent a message at 1:01 that arrived at 12:01.  So now the ship near Earth has learned of the message, and everyone agrees that the time is 12:01.  At 12:02 the people on the ship send you back the message that you won't write for another 58 minutes.

Your example sound like any situation you can get on earth on different timezones.

If I send you an email now (from europe) to you (assuming USA NY). Then I send the message 6 hours in the past.

#20 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Hyper Space - Is it possible? » 2004-10-17 00:57:16

Well time and space are still puzzling to me.

I read that modern day humans have no basis for comparing relativity theories with, thats why its hard for many humans. Maybe in the future it will change through technology or better SF series tongue

Personally I think there are more then the 4 dimensions (or do I want to believe that?). However the multi-verse where every action has it own universe is to strange for me.

I understood the explanation of wormholes though and it sounds like warp technology used in star trek.

I personally think that time travel is not possible, as why haven't we seen future humans yet? But then the future hasn't happened yet but then if the future humans travel to the past is it then the real past as we now and in the past never saw evidence of them, so they would travel to some pseudo past. The argument would be that future humans have reached some un-human state of mind and make no mistakes like modern humans do that would betray their existance to modern and past humans.

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The universe is so big, that to understand it size you should cross each nation on earth on your hands and knees and even then the earth is nothing.

So with no faster then light travel and possibly being the only intelligent beings in the universe this would so sad. I want to spread live in this universe. Not just human but any life.

Space exploration for me means also making up for what humans did to the earth by spreading earth life. Let earth life prosper not only on earth but on many planets and repay our debts to it by this, this is what life really wants.

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On the other hand, speed is related to time. Instead of increasing speed perhaps you could mess with time. So a star ship traveling a 2000 m/s would be slow but because time is slower on it, people, life and matter age much slower. It would be like traveling faster then time.

I have seen freakish theories that tesla's last ideas would tab energy from the time dimension. IF true it would be something like that.

This makes me think of time as some kind of radiation. It decays matter.

#21 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Hyper Space - Is it possible? » 2004-10-15 22:07:35

Just wondering what kind of space excists between wormhole entry and exit.

#22 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Hyper Space - Is it possible? » 2004-10-15 15:48:18

Okay last day I saw an documentary on black holes.

That made me think. What if black holes really puncture the fabric of space. What's there? Could it be the hyperspace that you see in SF movies like Star Wars or Babylon 5?

Even if matter couldn't travel through this hole in the fabric of space perhaps you could use it to send information. Which is still very usable not only from the point of real time communication with possible far off (but still solar) colonies.

An example would be the von neumann probe (like star treks V'ger). Send it to a neighboring star that has planets. Include on it the device for hyperspace communications. Now when the probe arrives at its destination, many hundreds of years will have past on Earth and you could send this probe new technological specifications for building self replicating machines to prepare for the arrival of humans.

This all implying that if space would be punctured at one place and you could see/work with whats on the other side of the puncture, other laws of physics apply.

#23 Re: Not So Free Chat » I bought Mars - It's mine now » 2004-10-11 19:07:31

I recently bought the planet Mars on Ebay. It was a good deal.

So here by I give this forum as cease and desit warning. Mars and its colonization plans are pattented and copyrighted from now on. So any discussion of these topics is against international law.

If you are wondering I will raise an anarchist like state on Mars.

Thank you for understand.

Any questions about this action will be forwarded to homeland security, FBI, interpol and your local police.

I heard that George Bush was going to invade Mars looking for weapons of mass distruction. Or was it oil?

Larry,

No, he looking for cultures of distructions. Of which he will find many in our anarchist planet.

However freedom loving that we are he will not get an easy task out of this.

#24 Re: Not So Free Chat » I bought Mars - It's mine now » 2004-10-11 15:06:51

I recently bought the planet Mars on Ebay. It was a good deal.

So here by I give this forum as cease and desit warning. Mars and its colonization plans are pattented and copyrighted from now on. So any discussion of these topics is against international law.

If you are wondering I will raise an anarchist like state on Mars.

Thank you for understand.

Any questions about this action will be forwarded to homeland security, FBI, interpol and your local police.

#25 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Microwave Sattelites - Sending solar energy to from orbits. » 2004-10-06 09:33:16

As I gather it electricity is just an EM wave with a low frequency. So an EM with a frequency of 50-60 Hz

No, electricity is the flow of electrons.  Elecricity and EM waves are very different things.

Sorry, I understand it now I think. Photons are EM waves not?

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