I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space. — Stephen Hawking
I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space. — Stephen Hawking
Humans would most likely bring with them their nukes, viruses, and other dangers. Space might have no future after humans begin to colonize it.. . .nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. . . . I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space. — Stephen Hawking
Yes he's right, also about what he said recently about A.I.I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space.
— Stephen Hawking
Utilizing classic dualistic logic, modern civilization has achieved its lofty heights by focusing on beauty to the exclusion of humor by pounding away relentlessly upon the excluded middle and, as far as I'm concerned, the next scientific revolution just can't come soon enough because the current one is destroying the entire planet and its difficult to see how any of the punch lines could get much worse. — wuliheron
The "Rama" of the title is an alien starship, initially mistaken for an asteroid categorised as "31/439". It is detected by astronomers in the year 2131 while it is still outside the orbit of Jupiter. Its speed (100,000 km/h) and the angle of its trajectory clearly indicate it is not on a long orbit around the sun, but comes from interstellar space. The astronomers' interest is further piqued when they realise the asteroid has an extremely rapid rotation period of 4 minutes and is exceptionally large. It is named Rama after the Hindu god, and an unmanned space probe dubbed Sita is launched from the Mars moon Phobos to intercept and photograph it. The resulting images reveal that Rama is a perfect cylinder, 20 kilometres (12 mi) in diameter and 54 kilometres (34 mi) long, and completely featureless, making this humankind's first encounter with an alien spacecraft.
As for colonizing Mars, NASA already has a reactionless drive straight out of Star Trek — wuliheron
Theoretically, you could equip a spaceship with a nuclear engine used for a submarine and reach the moon in four hours, — wuliheron
In its study NASA didn't attempt to explain the phenomenon, and instead contented itself with verifying that the system did indeed generate a small amount of thrust, between 30 and 50 micro-Newtons. This is a tiny amount, only enough to levitate a mass of three to five milligrams (a few eyelashes) here on Earth; but, astonishingly, it is a net thrust nonetheless….
…But before we start talking Sun-powered flying cars and weekend trips to Pluto, the scientific community will undoubtedly need to dissect the experiment with great care and independently verify whether the tiny net thrust reported by NASA could after all be attributed to some external cause that the researchers didn't account for.
..but it could be a bit more complicated and they could also be messing with space-time itself and doing some kind of weirdness. — wuliheron
A cold wood stove at close to the speed of light would, according to the theory, start to glow red until it eventually disintegrated. — wuliheron
My own suspicion is that space and time can exchange identities in extreme contexts and its possible to produce nonlinear temporal effects or "ripples" in time itself and the thrust they are developing is actually time being converted into space behind the device or space in front of the device being warped and compacted, but that's all speculation at this point. — wuliheron
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