Interstella travel

[kyser_soze]

I dunno - ask Jazzz...actually I don't know...dammit...

 

[likesfish]

like your even going to know if sc are running a conspricy
probably the computing revoultion alan turing and bill gates are both their agents another 100 years and we'll be building minds of our own then there establish contact with some slighty rational and worth talking to

 

[kyser_soze]

Nah, not here. SC decided in State Of The Art to leave Earth alone as a kind of test lab, cos we were so similar to one of the founder planets of The Culture (not that it has such things of course...)

 

[likesfish]

and you really think they stuck to that the temptation to meddle would just be too much galatic equil of a new coffee jar with the foil still on

 

[Crispy]

Seeing as we're in the mood, this story just came up on digg, and I thought it was great.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

 

[User 301X/5.1]

Seeing as we're in the mood, this story just came up on digg, and I thought it was great.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

That was wicked. Google is perhaps the base upon which Mircovac will continue to grow.

 

[Fruitloop]

Yeah, I think he rates Player of Games and Use Of Weapons as the best Culture books - I'm with you guys on Excession tho...it's the first book that really focuses on the Minds and the level of control they really do have over the Culture (I liken them to Chinese Mandarins, with their plotting etc) and how the popular image of them as benevolent Gods is clearly not true: when Sleeper Service threatens Genar-Hofoen and he's actually shocked that it would threaten his life...

They're like the Philosopher Kings in Plato's Republic, I reckon. I'd love to ask him if the resemblance is explicit, but he'd probably just stare at me like I'd grown horns. He does borrow words from Greek philosophy though, like the Zetetic Elench, so it's not as mental as it might sound.

 

[kyser_soze]

Seeing as we're in the mood, this story just came up on digg, and I thought it was great.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

That's a splendid little story for a Tuesday afternoon...

Fruitloop - have you read 'A Few Notes on The Culture'?
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

 

[Crispy]

That's a splendid little story for a Tuesday afternoon...

Fruitloop - have you read 'A Few Notes on The Culture'?
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

Guews what I was just reading?

 

[Fruitloop]

That's a splendid little story for a Tuesday afternoon...

Fruitloop - have you read 'A Few Notes on The Culture'?
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

No, although I think I've read a different web-text with some of the same content. I've run out if Iain Banks to read now, which is a shame.

 

[obanite]

Have you checked out Graviton-photon Field Propulsion?

 

[chainsaw cat]

How long would it take to accelerate to light speed at a 'g' a human could live through?

 

[8ball]

Best part of a year.

e2a - unless you're going to put them to sleep floating in gel and all that jazz.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Have you checked out Graviton-photon Field Propulsion?

What's one of those when it's at home?

 

[MikeMcc]

How long would it take to accelerate to light speed at a 'g' a human could live through?

V = u + at

that means (if u = 0) t = v/a = 3 x 10^8 / 10 (approx) = 3 x 10^7 seconds = 347 days. I doubt you would want to do much more 1g for that length of time, though with exercise to build up muscle tone you could probably build up the number of g gradually and reduce the time a bit.

 

[8ball]

V = u + at

that means (if u = 0) t = v/a = 3 x 10^8 / 10 (approx) = 3 x 10^7 seconds = 347 days. I doubt you would want to do much more 1g for that length of time, though with exercise to build up muscle tone you could probably build up the number of g gradually and reduce the time a bit.

To around, 'the best part of a year', say?