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    Quote Originally Posted by FMP View Post
    Who said anything about a lazy g acceleration
    That's all it would take. The flight from earth to orbit and landing would be the only "high-g" portions and we do that all the time.

    Let's just go ahead and make America great again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by David - WI View Post
    But that's silly, and probably the least of our problems... if you accelerate at 1g (so there is normal "gravity" on the ship) you would reach the speed of light (which we will never do) in about a year.

    A Tesla S-Plaid can accelerate faster than that, and your eyeballs will be fine!
    So, at 1g after probably a month... you would be coasting (or slowly decelerating at 1g).
    I was thinking more of the Star Trek warp speed and their “inertial damping” stuff. To keep the gravity stable through the whole flight with a coast you would need a combination of thrust and spin. If you had enough fuel you could go up at constant one g to the flip point and then down at one g. Lots to keep you occupied thinking about it.
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    Why would you stay at only a constant g accel... It would be considerably more over a short distance to achieve the constant rate of travel needed .
    Don't let that chunk of space rock hit you
    Last edited by FMP; 03-18-2023 at 01:25 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Turtleherder View Post
    The eyeballs pushed to the back of our skulls seems to be the part most people leave out of the whole interstellar travel issue. How do you safety accelerate and decelerate a human body for the speeds needed to make the trip? It’s fun to think of methods for very high top speed but most of them result in people becoming a gooey paste on a bulkhead.
    As I understand, the Earth moves at 67,000 miles an hour through space yet we don’t go flying off or turn to goo.

    If people keep thinking something is impossible, it will be. I’m quite certain our civilization has yet to discover many mysteries of the universe. But in mankind’s defense, we are able to take the image of a human and make it fly invisibly through the air and present it at many different places in the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Turtleherder View Post
    The real question is whether intelligent life can survive long enough and avoid exterminating themselves, to achieve interstellar travel.

    Yes, the Fermi Paradox, The Great Filter and the We’re F#cked scenario make you believe it may very well be impossible for a civilization to progress far enough to venture out into the galaxy. If you guys are inclined here’s a good summation https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
    "The technology and knowledge of a civilization only 1,000 years ahead of us could be as shocking to us as our world would be to a medieval person. A civilization 1 million years ahead of us might be as incomprehensible to us as human culture is to chimpanzees. And Planet X is 3.4 billion years ahead of us…" except from the Fermi Paradox article.
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    Therefore, considering the above. Advanced beings visiting our planet and solar system would have to be highly moral (notwithstanding the technical or life form) to collectively in peaceful habitat achieve interstellar travel.

    Reflecting on the high morals of the interstellar visitors, then one would ask how the visitors could introduce themselves publicly, without incurring a Fright and Fight defensive reaction by mortals' political/military/religious/scientific/culture on earth.

    If the mortals on earth are not receptive to a cosmic family, then surely the cosmic visitors are going to be merely observers. And it seems, they are interested in observing are destructive capabilities, i.e., military activities. A military symbol of earth's moral level towards humanity (let alone visitors).

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    Suppose Hiroshima was the "event" they.came to investigate. Figure 5-6 years for the signal to arrive, 50 years to get here plus, in theory it would take 5-6 years for them.to.send a message home... plus 50-60 years for the.reinforcements to.arrive.

    So, 1950 they finally see the signature of the nuclear explosion, 2000 the scouts arrive, 2005 the message that we're "tasty" and plentiful arrives home... 2055 the invasion begins!

    I should be long gone by then, good luck to the rest of you young guys!

    Let's just go ahead and make America great again!

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    Dave, you’re thinking about technology as we know it or understand it.

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    During the Civil war they would cut your arm or leg off for what is simple chit today

    In 200 years we have made a few accomplishments in Science and medicine

    While it is still so easy to deceive the common man.

    Lack of critical thinking

    What is meant by critically thinking?




    Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write. The term critical comes from the Greek word kritikos meaning “able to judge or discern”.




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    Maybe they're right here idling along side us in another dimension...
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