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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    12/18/09

    In reply to The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth
    Psst, put the cue ball there.
    Ok.
    Now, dim the lights except that one.
    Ok.
    Got it. Now, post that we found a lake on a far away planet...
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    Image of BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech
    12/18/09

    In reply to The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth
    Looks like a big interstellar boob. I wanna squeeze it. Yep, my mind is in the gutter today.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/18/09

    In reply to The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth
    That's no Moon... Oh, wait it is.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    I maintain that I am very, VERY important, or V!!!!!!!!I.P., if I may. Visualizations like this help me to feel better on the days when I can't finish my whole sandwich.
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    Videos like these make me sad I likely won't live long enough to grasp it all. Stupid mortality.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    And I can't even find the store I'm looking for at the mall...
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    This fairy cake is making me thirsty.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    So on the subject of intelligent life outside our planet-- There's a pretty good chance that even if they were looking for us, they'd never be able to find us in that huge mess.
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    Image of random_droid random_droid
    12/17/09

    @Homerjay is utterly alone.: Well, they could follow the radio signals back to our planet since we have transmitted so much and continue to transmit them.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    12/17/09

    @random_droid: Sure, if they knew how to listen to the radio. Maybe they don't have ears. Also, the distance our radio signals have made it is so miniscule still.
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    Image of random_droid random_droid
    12/17/09

    @Homerjay is utterly alone.: Well, assuming they were intelligent and had the technology to listen to the signals. Of course lesser lifeforms couldn't track them. As for the distance the signals have traveled, as the video shows, it's only 70 light years, but a planet with intelligent life could be anywhere. Who knows, maybe they've already sent us a space tweet, it just hasn't got here yet.
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    Image of Ishbar Ishbar
    12/17/09

    @Homerjay is utterly alone.:

    It's not even a matter of finding or not. The mere fact that the closest constellations (which basically have slim chance of harboring life) are 10,000 light years away.

    Being that the speed of light is the fastest thing known...and travel at said speed (even if surpassed) is no where near our century.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    12/17/09

    @Ishbar: dude, if Spaceballs has taught us anything it's that light speed is NOT the fastest speed possible. Do your research first.
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    Image of Ishbar Ishbar
    12/18/09

    @Homerjay is utterly alone.:

    You're right.
    I forgot about the Norwegian Convention of 2142 where Cornelius Vagabond O'hair proposed light can have an exponential increase in energy when spectrophotometric prisms are filtered in front of said light source.

    That of course led to the off base miner colonies pushed by federal lobbyists in an attempt to generate tax revenue from "Plaid Drive" technologies increasing demand for interstellar space travel.

    HOW could I have been so blind?
    Psh, nothing faster than light; I can't believe I even said that!
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    "Man, we are fucking nothing."

    i should certainly hope not. coincidentally the only place you can fuck nothing is in space. and that would make your johnson explode. in the bad kind of way. getting your dick sucked is a whole other thing in space.

    "What happened to Travis?"

    "Didn't you hear? Poor bastard was replacing one of the solar arrays, his suit failed, and he got his dick sucked."
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    Image of BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    So, you're saying the world isn't flat?
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/17/09

    In reply to The Physics of Space Battles
    Fight maneuvering would be very costly. I wonder about the viability of a strong magnetic pulse in a flyby - if the other fighter had enough affected material, it may yank it (and you) onto a different course, and even serve as an EMP. If your craft was extremely hardy, you could even use it to match speed, clamp on and start cutting. Still, I don't know how well it would pull - maybe the crafts would be titanium, carbon fiber, plastics, etc. Some form of grappling line, or even a net in the way could be devastating though.

    Also one thing I never see is crafts blown back by explosive decompression when they're ruptured, or having to fire maneuvering/stabilizing thrusters when firing kinetic weapons.

    But right now, or in the forseeable future, fighting in space with manned vehicles would be like living in the proverbial glass house - it would cost a terrible amount of resources, and after a little damage, you could be totally destroyed.

    I think one of the wiser choices would be to launch a cloud of lightweight, maneuverable drones with a simple function - such as homing onto a target and docking on it, then firing something akin to a modern shaped charge anti-tank missile. That way you'd save the huge cost of fuel moving your whole ship around when you could move a 20-50lb drone instead, and it would be hellishly hard to evade.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    12/17/09

    @fuchikoma: I'll bet Hellfire missiles would work just fine in space with a few modifications :)
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/17/09

    @Coralvillain: Exactly... let your weapons do the fancy flying. >:D

    I was actually thinking something like the MKV, with a docking magnet/gripper/sticker and a single HEAT warhead.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    Total Perspective Vortex = Mind well and truly blown.

    Thank You.
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    Image of Digo Digo
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    Oh yeah, well when I look up at the universe and I put my hand in front of my eyes, I don't see any of that stuff. Take that universe, trumped by my hand. Who's insignificant now?
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    Image of Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    I wonder how many of those "artificial satellites" belong to Google.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/17/09

    @Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow: Does Google have ANY satellites? They have the rights to the pictures some of them take, but I doubt they actually own any.
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    Image of Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow
    12/17/09

    @njdevil: you dare speak against the vast wealth and power of Google?!

    [waits for lightning to strike]
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    Image of Eruanno Eruanno
    12/17/09

    @Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow:

    No, no. Here, let me show you how it's done.

    *dark booming voice* YOU DARE SPEAK AGAINST THE MIGHT OF GOOGLE?!
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/17/09

    In reply to Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video
    Speak for yourself Frucci, I ain't nothing!
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    Image of barrygeorge001001 barrygeorge001001
    12/17/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: Are you saying he's fucking you?
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