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Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gutenberg.org/1/7/9/1/17910/17910-h/images/p000.jpg)
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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The system is just 40 light-years away. On a cosmic scale, that’s right next door. Of course, practically speaking, it would still take us hundreds of millions of years to get there with today’s technology
You'd only need to travel at half the speed of light to get there in eighty years. Seems within our technological ability, but it would require a multi-generational journey, unless we can figure out suspended animation. Seeing as .5 C = 93,000 miles/second. And 1 G acceleration is 32 ft/sec/sec. I get about six months of constant 1 G acceleration to reach target velocity. And, of course, another six months to decelerate. (Folks, please feel free to check my math. And correct me if I made a mistake.) That seems doable. Except for that pesky E=mv2 thing. Where the energy required to accelerate increases exponentially with speed. Coupled with the problem, that the mass of your fuel to accelerate and decelerate must also be accelerated. A multi-generational craft capable of interstellar flight measured in decades and unsupported colonization would have to be comparable to a modern day US aircraft carrier in size. I can not comprehend the amount of fuel it would take to hold such a craft to a year of 1 G acceleration. It would require fleets and fleets of equivalently sized tankers to accompany the vessel. I wonder if that amount of hydrogen and oxygen could be extracted from this planet. Youre assuming conventional rocket fuel. What about nuclear? Alternatively solar wind power. Freeman Dyson and friends had the idea fifty years ago... https://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion Project Orion
Lunatic fringe....we all know you're out there.
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What you math guys are forgetting is as a ship begins to approach light speed the mass of the ship increases thus requiring more power to drive it.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Ruined my travel plans - they look angry! Dreamer! Here's what actually out there.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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Campfire Sage
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What you math guys are forgetting is as a ship begins to approach light speed the mass of the ship increases thus requiring more power to drive it.
As I understand it, this effect isn't significant till much closer to the speed of light than 50%.
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What you math guys are forgetting is as a ship begins to approach light speed the mass of the ship increases thus requiring more power to drive it.
Tracks, I get it, but we're a long way from worrying about that one. So far the fastest 'Space-Man Travel Speed' has been a little UNDER 7 miles per second, and if what everyone says is true, that we need to be approaching light speed..... 186,000MPS ...... we have a long way to go..........
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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Campfire Sage
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Ruined my travel plans - they look angry! Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. So hot ... tentot. 
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Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. Second from left looks like whoopi goldberg, third from left has a good set of tits. Can't be sure but the one on the far right...I have vague memories of waking up to something like that when I was young and stupid.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. Second from left looks like whoopi goldberg, third from left has a good set of tits. Can't be sure but the one on the far right...I have vague memories of waking up to something like that when I was young and stupid. I thought that 3rd one had a set like the 1950s pinups came adorned with.... approach em wrong and you could put yer eye out....
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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They can guess. That's allowed.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. thinking the 3rd from the left had a lift and separate procedure. The others look like foot longs on roids.
Proud to be a true Sandlapper!!
Go Nats!!!!
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Let's move there leave Dumbocrats here! Hanco, what if there aint no deer. I say we call it Utopia and send dimocraps.
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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Campfire Kahuna
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Ruined my travel plans - they look angry! Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. ...and they're glaring at YOU!
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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yeah, we humans are on the verge of something big. can't describe it, but it's there, no doubt.
we've come so far, so fast. and in the last 100 years it's been breathtaking. shoot, in the last thirty years we've seen the advent of al gore's internet invention about revolutionize our lives..and the cell phones galore. no need for land lines for phones in Afrikur, just use satellites, and cell towers.
if our extra-terrestrial keepers and overseers keep feeding us information, there's no tellin' what we might bring on line in the near future.
afterall, what's time to a hawg? Yeah, Gus. Utopia is just around the corner.
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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If there is life out there and they have the technology to get here.....
We are fughed
Maker of the Frankenstud Sling Keeper
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Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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And some gals here think they got it rough making san'wiches!
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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If their are more Urf like planets, does that mean that there are also more Gus(s) out there?  Where the heck you think he came from?
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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Ruined my travel plans - they look angry! Dreamer! Here's what actually out there. ...and they're glaring at YOU! It reminds me of something. Oh yes, Its the universal female body language meaning go to hell, dont go there, you gave me a headache and you want what, youre a worm, make my day sucker glare stare. Ive seen tha....uh, never mind.
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Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
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