Expansionist Nato.... and SPACE TRAVEL!

You are a good person Viking.

Edit:My double post is due to a comment being deleted.

Here's the new RP interest Thread! spread the news and have fun! Remember Its just an INTEREST thread not the real RP thread.
http://josefvstalin.com/threads/earth-2050-rp-interest-thread.8359/

The staff can see that, don't worry

Who puts two subjects in a title? Wouldn't have been easier to make two seperate threads one in current events coffee house the other in the theoretical science section?

Well I certainly lost a few brain cells after reading this thread. I mean I got a few back from reading Chives' post, but I still feel a little dumberer for the whole experience.

Chives did you photo copy JosefVstalins head to the body of a hot chick.........interesting yet disturbing............-_-

If only we all could be as ignorant as you.

Less than 100 years ago if you said one day you will be able to use a bunch of objects in geo-stationary orbit to communicate near instantaneously with someone on the other side of the earth. You would have been laughed at.

Less than 50 years ago if you said a computer would one day be so small it would fit on a table, let alone in your pocket, you would have been laughed at.

Humanity went from the first powered flight to walking on the moon in less than a century.

Never underestimate our curiosity, determination and ingenuity.

More importantly, never underestimate the enormity of our universe.

The gap always seem s uncrossable. Until someone builds a bridge.

You fail to realize the difference between a machine rising off of the ground and a machine traversing across the galaxy.

When the Wright brothers built the first flying machine, they had no grasp of the enormity of our universe, our galaxy, or even our own solar system.

Any real notion of humanity expanding beyond the outer rings of our solar system is purely childish.

While you may be ignorant to the reality of relative space, educated people aren't.

You cannot travel beyond the speed of light, even achieving the speed of light is ridiculously difficult.

And at that, light only travels so fast.
Refer to my previous post to a simple example of how futile space exploration is.

And you clearly fail to understand the point I was making. Each step seems impossible until some one goes and does it. Before the concept of bridge existed in the human mind imagine how inconceivable it would be that you could cross from one side of a river to the other without getting wet. Don't think yourself so arrogant that you can predict the limit of human knowledge, or event hat your current understanding of the universe is complete. We have proven people like you wrong time and time again.

I'm not predicting the limit of human knowledge.

However I do know and understand the limits of the physical universe.
We've known and comprehended for decades the limits of the physical universe.
Galactic expansion goes beyond human capacity.

Don't try to romanticize what you don't actually understand.
Because believe it or not, we understand that we are not infinitely capable and that we can't achieve some things.

Here, maybe Cracked can get through to you in your ignorance.

Unless you're trying to argue you are not human, I honestly don't see how you can say this and call me ignorant.

It's simple physics.

Did you not pass high school physics?

The majority of that is just inconveniences like having to constantly walk uphill and not getting very many good views. The only thing of any real threat is the radiation problems. Even then though, that could be solved with a little extra planning.

Anyway, you seem to doubt the possibility that there might be more to life than the limited understanding of the Universe we already know. In a few thousand years anything could happen.

You could even stop being 13.
But that's about as likely as reaching the other side of the galaxy

I passed the standard grade (not sure of non-scottish equivilant) it did not include string, quantum or even general and special relativity. Inf act it still taught the Theory of Gravity. After I found out that what they teach you is not the most current predictave model I spent my time learning history and English while just reading the odd "New Scientist" and internet article on the cutting edge stuff. Why? You got a degree in theoretical astrophysics from the year 4654 CE that makes you qualified in this?

Regardless, had you studied science in the 8th century your understanding of the physical world would have lead you to arrogantly assume humans could never fly. Seeing as it was simply against the laws of phyiscs. And then we built machines that allow to manipulate laws of nature that where, hitherto, unknown and uncncieved of.

Actually both will happen, it's just a matter of time.

That statement is why you will always be 13

While the laws of nature said man would never fly, the laws consisted of God keeping us on the ground.

Then again, this isn't the laws of nature, this is the concrete laws of physics I'm talking about.