While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[Yui108]

Do any of you read ASOIF? If so... Something just clicked for me.

What do you all think of the possibility of

Spoiler :

Jon being Lyanna Stark and Rheagar Targarean?

Wait... You just thought of r + l = j?

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I did... (Though, In my defense, I only read those books very recently.)

 

[Thlayli]

So I was just reading about Christopher Columbus guys and I was wondering, what do you think of the possibility of

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The world being round

 

[Luckymoose]

So I was just reading about Christopher Columbus guys and I was wondering, what do you think of the possibility of

Spoiler :

The world being round

That can't work because

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we would fall off

 

[Lord_Iggy]

That's ridiculous Thlayli. We've known for years that Earth is an oblate spheroid.

 

[SKILORD]

Some even propose that the Earth might be banana shaped.

 

[Boundless]

Honestly, so am I. The amount of time I've had has allowed me to get very detailed with a lot of different factions, it's an exciting update.

I would love to give more specific details, hell, I'd love to post the thing, but at least 1 player has agreed to send his orders before Saturday and so... while we wait.

Ahhh I'll have to make sure I get on the internet Saturday night after my mammoth flight to see if there's an update! Something to look forward to eh

 

[Shadowbound]

I've looked at Columbus's idea, and the math is all wrong. He just made up the sphere thing so people would give him money to sail around.

 

[Luckymoose]

He wouldn't need to sail around if he invented an airship!

 

[Boundless]

Or had a massive drill spaceship. Then he could simply go through!

 

[Lord_Iggy]

A spaceship usually isn't designed to drill its way through a planetary core...

 

[Adrogans]

unless its a giant bomb as well...course I guess that just means its a sapce based weapon of mass destruction.

 

[Lord of Elves]

unless its a giant bomb as well...course I guess that just means its a sapce based weapon of mass destruction.

Would you like to know more?

 

[SKILORD]

A spaceship usually isn't designed to drill its way through a planetary core...

I have to note that current human spaceship designs are pretty limited. Sure, the Space Shuttle isn't designed to do that. Maybe it is also true that the idea hasn't caught on with Sci Fi authors yet, but we have no way to determine whether or not spaceships (in the event that there is other sentient life in the Universe and if they are also spacefaring) are designed to do that. Maybe we've been going about this entire process backwards the whole time.

 

[Adrogans]

Would you like to know more?

Aww I wanted it to have a big drill too though.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I have to note that current human spaceship designs are pretty limited. Sure, the Space Shuttle isn't designed to do that. Maybe it is also true that the idea hasn't caught on with Sci Fi authors yet, but we have no way to determine whether or not spaceships (in the event that there is other sentient life in the Universe and if they are also spacefaring) are designed to do that. Maybe we've been going about this entire process backwards the whole time.

Well, working in extremely high-density solid environments with atmospheres kind of means that having it be a spaceship too is... beyond being a colossal impracticality, it kind of means that the vessel isn't really a spaceship.

If a car could travel like a submarine through solid rock, would we still call it a car?

 

[SKILORD]

The MPG would probably be terrible. We'd at least have to call it an SUV, I suppose that is right.

But, on the other hand, you could go and get all the oil you needed and carry it back to the surface. (for refining)

It's a good point, but again, I think that when speaking in terms of hypothetical space travel it would be best to be as open minded as possible. Start nano-fabricating harder than diamond shells for your spaceships out of stray atomic particles and very little seems impractical, but again, we don't have this sort of technology, I don't know if this operation can even be performed, my point is that while such a device seems implausible if it were built using existing human methods, the concept of building any ship at all for interstellar travel is impractical under current industrial technique alone.

 

[Luckymoose]

I picture a giant bacteriophage like spaceship puncturing the Earth with Christopher Columbus on top laughing at all the fools who doubted him.

 

[Masada]

I can swallow planets, so there.

 

[North King]

Well, working in extremely high-density solid environments with atmospheres kind of means that having it be a spaceship too is... beyond being a colossal impracticality, it kind of means that the vessel isn't really a spaceship.

If a car could travel like a submarine through solid rock, would we still call it a car?

Blow a hole in the planet, travel to the center. Voila!*

*I always read this word as "viola".

It's a good point, but again, I think that when speaking in terms of hypothetical space travel it would be best to be as open minded as possible. Start nano-fabricating harder than diamond shells for your spaceships out of stray atomic particles and very little seems impractical, but again, we don't have this sort of technology, I don't know if this operation can even be performed, my point is that while such a device seems implausible if it were built using existing human methods, the concept of building any ship at all for interstellar travel is impractical under current industrial technique alone.

Why use carbon shells when you could use a solid neutron shell?