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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: realfuzzhead] 1
#13973297 - 02/16/11 11:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Picture this awesomeness of extreme engineering:
1..take a brown dwarf star 2..build a hollow sphere around it with a hole on one side. 3..build a VAST civilization on the outer surface on the sphere, fueled by the brown dwarf's energy. 4..because of the hole, the brown dwarf/sphere assembly will function as a rocket that has a burn time of hundreds of billions of years. You can steer it by repositioning the sphere's hole, which is the exhaust, and stop it by inverting direction, then closing the hole, and collecting the extra energy. 5..with some of the energy, atoms can be harvested from the interstellar (or intergalactic) medium which you can use to build stuff etc, among them Deuterium and Helium-3 which you can introduce into the brown Dwarf, extending its service life well beyond its natural lifespan 6..enjoy space travel all over the galaxy if not intergalactic space travel for trillions of years, with a civilisation of lets say a hundred billion, stopping occasionally to convert other Brown Dwarves (the most common star of the universe) to similar nomadic civilisations.
Is that epic or wut?
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Asante]
#13973318 - 02/16/11 11:48 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: DrMambo]
#13973366 - 02/16/11 11:58 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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its already being done, the government doesn't want you to know...
dale gribble told me.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: x Ju x]
#13973382 - 02/16/11 12:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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x Ju x said: If it tugs on the earth at all it would definitely cause some problems.
Even our moon causes the tides to go nuts sometimes. It's definitely interesting.
the moon CAUSES our tides... not just them going nuts sometimes...
what you gotta understand is that gravity is a relatively weak force on comparison with others... i doubt that it will do anything serious unless it gets closer than at least that diagram speculates
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Slavaslave]
#13973431 - 02/16/11 12:12 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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True.
I thought he was talking about the implications if it got any closer.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: x Ju x]
#13973499 - 02/16/11 12:23 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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death star?
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: JesusGoneRogue]
#13973709 - 02/16/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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everything but earth is fake
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Royksopp]
#13973726 - 02/16/11 01:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Royksopp said: everything but earth is fake
 you know what they say. ignorance is bliss. you find that coke yet?
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: JesusGoneRogue]
#13973729 - 02/16/11 01:29 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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JesusGoneRogue said:
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Royksopp said: everything but earth is fake
 you know what they say. ignorance is bliss. you find that coke yet?
haha no
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Slavaslave]
#13973854 - 02/16/11 02:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Slavaslave said:
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x Ju x said: If it tugs on the earth at all it would definitely cause some problems.
Even our moon causes the tides to go nuts sometimes. It's definitely interesting.
the moon CAUSES our tides... not just them going nuts sometimes...
what you gotta understand is that gravity is a relatively weak force on comparison with others... i doubt that it will do anything serious unless it gets closer than at least that diagram speculates
what? Have you seen the impact that a large celestial body bodies have on the fabric of space/time? this will undoubtedly fuck our shit up if it gets within range.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Olympus Mons] 1
#13974242 - 02/16/11 03:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Olympus Mons said:
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Slavaslave said:
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x Ju x said: If it tugs on the earth at all it would definitely cause some problems.
Even our moon causes the tides to go nuts sometimes. It's definitely interesting.
the moon CAUSES our tides... not just them going nuts sometimes...
what you gotta understand is that gravity is a relatively weak force on comparison with others... i doubt that it will do anything serious unless it gets closer than at least that diagram speculates
what? Have you seen the impact that a large celestial body bodies have on the fabric of space/time? this will undoubtedly fuck our shit up if it gets within range.
Slavaslave is correct.
Gravity is one of the weaker forces acting in the universe. Of the four fundamental forces in the universe: electromagnetism, strong interaction, weak interaction, and gravitation, gravity is the weakest of the four.
This may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Olympus Mons]
#13974255 - 02/16/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Okay, maybe I should read more about this before OMGing all over myself, but...
....OM-MF-G WAS SITCHIN RIGHT!!!???!!! 
We are so fucked. 
Am I the only one who read the war of the gods series?
I think this dude knows what I'm talking about:
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Pretty far out there, so far as speculation goes. But hella interesting... and dare I now say.... possible?
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Satori23]
#13974332 - 02/16/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Satori23 said:
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Olympus Mons said:
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Slavaslave said:
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x Ju x said: If it tugs on the earth at all it would definitely cause some problems.
Even our moon causes the tides to go nuts sometimes. It's definitely interesting.
the moon CAUSES our tides... not just them going nuts sometimes...
what you gotta understand is that gravity is a relatively weak force on comparison with others... i doubt that it will do anything serious unless it gets closer than at least that diagram speculates
what? Have you seen the impact that a large celestial body bodies have on the fabric of space/time? this will undoubtedly fuck our shit up if it gets within range.
Slavaslave is correct.
Gravity is one of the weaker forces acting in the universe. Of the four fundamental forces in the universe: electromagnetism, strong interaction, weak interaction, and gravitation, gravity is the weakest of the four.
This may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction
i didnt say he was wrong. Yes it is the weakest of four, but that's like being the 4th strongest man in the world. I personally would not challenge the fourth strongest man in the world to any feat of strength.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: Olympus Mons]
#13974365 - 02/16/11 03:55 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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gravity is by far the weakest but that is no ground for saying that its gravitational pull on earth wouldnt throw our delicate balance in the comfort zone out of whack
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: realfuzzhead]
#13974395 - 02/16/11 04:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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exactly.
It wouldn't rip apart the earth or anything. But it could definitely fuck up the tides and other things like that.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: realfuzzhead]
#13974400 - 02/16/11 04:03 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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But will make our wieners larger if we lay on the ground and tyche's gravity pulls at us?
If so I can drop this enzyte shit.
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: x Ju x]
#13974410 - 02/16/11 04:05 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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idk man, depending on where earth is in its orbit when this planet crosses our rotation, we either just have a really cool view or be absolutely fucked
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: realfuzzhead]
#13974419 - 02/16/11 04:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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this is probably one of the reasons TPTB have built so many DUMBs
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: realfuzzhead]
#13974429 - 02/16/11 04:08 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The other day I was driving home around 11:40 am, and it was one of those days where you can still see the moon in the sky.
I was thinking about how incredible it would be to just see a planet pass us by and not be effected by it at all. In reality though, it would definitely fuck with earths homeostasis a little bit,
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Re: CNN Reports Massive Brown Dwarf Lurking In Our Solar System [Re: PreparationH]
#13974434 - 02/16/11 04:09 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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PreparationH said: But will make our wieners larger if we lay on the ground and tyche's gravity pulls at us?
If so I can drop this enzyte shit.
does that enzyte shit really work?i remember watching so many of those commercials when i was younger.
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