A post with some real content.    Thank you.

We at the point of exponential technological growth now.  I think it was R.A.W who first brought my attention the exponential growth curve in his book Prometheus Rising (highly recommended BTW) although I don't believe he was the first person to note it.

The majority of this technology is being classified or made in black projects themselves - with good reason.  Many of them would actually break down our entire economic system which is on the verge of collapse anyway because its becoming increasing difficult for them to prevent these technologies leaking out or being manufactured by the commercial world.

One of the interesting ones I've been reading about recently is nano technology.  The mastery of which (is already happening) would allow things so far beyond our dreams we can only just begin to imagine the possibilities...

Imagine you want to design a material, so you feed the equations for the qualities you desire into this machine and it builds the material from atom up to your exact specification.  We could have adaptive materials and goods like a load of nano bots that form the machine we need to complete a task.  We can make food from scratch out of useless material.  It goes on and on but the point is the mastery of inner space is going to cause a massive technological revolution for us and we are at the point now with this exponential growth that its like a bubbling pot that the powers that be are desperately trying to hold the lid on because they want to maintain control and they know its going completely reform the entire structure of humanity.

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the laws of physics/nature got in the way?

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We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity...Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

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Upon graduation with a master's degree in thermodynamics from UCLA, Ben Rich was hired by Lockheed. In December 1954, Rich was sent to the secret research and development Skunk Works section run by Lockheed. Later was program manager for the SR-71 Blackbird propulsion system. The idea to paint the high-speed aircraft's skin black, to help dissipate the tremendous frictional heat, was Rich's. He championed the early prototypes of stealth technology and led the development of the F-117 stealth fighter.

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Patlal said:

Mathematically impossible, but if our brain can imagine it. It is possible!

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nice1 said:

This guy works in a company with the biggest black budget contracts in the world so I can believe him.

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DieCommie said:

Patlal said:

Mathematically impossible, but if our brain can imagine it. It is possible!

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I think you are wrong on both counts here.  Its not mathematically impossible, its observed to be not possible.  Its the observation that gives us the idea that its impossible, the math describes that observation.  Secondly, its naive to think that if our brains can imagine it, it is possible.  That is not the case at all as evidenced by many, many people's imaginations never coming to fruition.

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Impossible to go faster then light but its not impossible to warp space so that the distance is effectively shortened enough that to a relative observer the object is going faster then the speed of light even though the law is never broken.



In 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand.[1] The ship would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation do not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at high velocity through flat spacetime relative to other objects. Also, this method of travel does not actually involve moving faster than light in a local sense, since a light beam within the bubble would still always move faster than the ship; it is only "faster than light" in the sense that, thanks to the contraction of the space in front of it, the ship could reach its destination faster than a light beam restricted to travelling outside the warp bubble. Thus, the Alcubierre drive does not contradict the conventional claim that relativity forbids a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds.

Now if we could find a way to warp space in such a way we could effectively  achieve intersteller flight, In theory.

DieCommie said:

Many solutions to Einstein's field equations exist, that doesn't mean they are all realized in nature.

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fazdazzle said:

DieCommie said:

Many solutions to Einstein's field equations exist, that doesn't mean they are all realized in nature.

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Doesn't that say something of the credulity of Einstein's field equations?

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Patlal said:

If lightsabers were invented and manifactured. Despite the apparent impossibility of this. Who would be allowed to carry such powerful weapons?

Would you legalize it for the mass public or restricted it to the elite.

From what I've seen from Star Wars, these babies are lethal. You leterrally rob a bank no problem with one of these. open up every safety deposit box no problem.

For the record, my lightsaber would be red.

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