MMOC Guild Wars Guild

[Pud'n]

You guys are boring >.>. I blame the Asura for this.

[DrakeWurrum]

These time differences are just silly.

Don't worry, when we become a space-faring race, we'll all have the same timezone, and time won't be related to a single planet's rotation.

[Squirrelbanes]

You guys are boring >.>. I blame the Asura for this.

I just woke up Still too groggy to be overly funny or witty, even for asura baiting

Don't worry, when we become a space-faring race, we'll all have the same timezone, and time won't be related to a single planet's rotation.

You'll still have timezones on each planet based on rotation. But they'll prob be an earth standard time that most ppl use. And I'm still holding out for instant teleportation. Walking is.....meh.

[DrakeWurrum]

And I'm still holding out for instant teleportation. Walking is.....meh.

Well Star Trek style teleportation probably won't ever be possible.

[Allanon the Mystic]

Well Star Trek style teleportation probably won't ever be possible.

Teleportation that requires your atoms to be disassembled and resembled will most likely never happen, but teleportation by bending space sounds a more likely thing to happen.

[BlairPhoenix]

Teleportation that requires your atoms to be disassembled and resembled will most likely never happen, but teleportation by bending space sounds a more likely thing to happen.

Probably not in our lifetime though.

[Squirrelbanes]

Teleportation that requires your atoms to be disassembled and resembled will most likely never happen, but teleportation by bending space sounds a more likely thing to happen.

Idd...they've actually had some success with this approach already I understand. Something about moving an atom a milimeter or something I read about in science magazine a while back. It decayed rather quickly though
star trek is......meh, in my book. More fantastical than sci fi. I prefer more realistic sci fi, like Babylon 5 or Dune. Frankly, if we ever turned out like the society in star trek i'd rather we devoled.

[DrakeWurrum]

Idd...they've actually had some success with this approach already I understand. Something about moving an atom a milimeter or something I read about in science magazine a while back. It decayed rather quickly though
star trek is......meh, in my book. More fantastical than sci fi. I prefer more realistic sci fi, like Babylon 5 or Dune. Frankly, if we ever turned out like the society in star trek i'd rather we devoled.

They've succeeded in teleporting photons back in the 90s, which have no mass. Requires a lot more to teleport something with mass.

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Frankly, if we ever turned out like the society in star trek i'd rather we devoled.

But... they don't use money! And there's an entire race that treats logic like a religion!

[Pud'n]

I just woke up Still too groggy to be overly funny or witty, even for asura baiting

Awwww you Asura no want to play? Okay then, I guess I'll poke around a couple Charr, they're closest enough to being an Asura .

[Squirrelbanes]

They've succeeded in teleporting photons back in the 90s, which have no mass. Requires a lot more to teleport something with mass.

Yh, that was the one Thanks. And yeah...it caused quite a stir amongst trekkies I remember...photons being what the teleporter tech there was based on, I think. Similar with the holodeck.

But... they don't use money! And there's an entire race that treats logic like a religion!

Sorry...but any race that views Wesley Crusher as the archetype human...no thanks. I prefer a bit of blood, sweat and passion. We'll never get anywhere if we fall in that pathetic excuse for humanity.
I guess I read too much Nietzsche

[DrakeWurrum]

Pft. There needs to be emotion, yes, but there's so little logical thinking in human society today that I can't help but love the idea.

Vulcans are, technically, more emotional than humans are, by nature - they just go through rigorous mental discipline to keep under control.

[Larynx]

Probably not in our lifetime though.

The amount of energy required would be equivalent to if you converted all of the mass of Jupiter into energy.

Which, by current technology, is impossible.

And that's if the transfer was 100%. To make a comparison, I think with things like nuclear bombs it's only 10%, and they use about as much hydrogen as contained in a balloon.

I might be off on those figures though, it's not worth referencing. :P

So anyways, scientists have no fucking clue how to do it. But they're able to calculate how much energy would be required. I have no idea how though. It's definitely not going to be achievable within our lifetime, assuming we don't have any medical advances that extend our lifetime faster than we die of old age.

Which I personally believe might not be too far fetched.

[DrakeWurrum]

So anyways, scientists have no fucking clue how to do it. But they're able to calculate how much energy would be required. I have no idea how though.

You should know this. How do you calculate the energy of a body of mass?

E=mc²

[Larynx]

You should know this. How do you calculate the energy of a body of mass?

E=mc²

No, I don't mean the conversion. I mean how they know how much will be required in the first place to even do it.

[Snow White]

ah, make-shift guild chat. feels good man.

[Larynx]

ah, make-shift guild chat. feels good man.

I'm feelin' it.

[DrakeWurrum]

No, I don't mean the conversion. I mean how they know how much will be required in the first place to even do it.

Well, I suppose they're just talking about the amount of energy in the human body.

[Larynx]

Well, I suppose they're just talking about the amount of energy in the human body.

um... no.

They calculated the amount of energy required to warp spacetime. As in, the faster than light travel type. I don't think the human body contains as much energy as the mass of Jupiter. =P

[DrakeWurrum]

They calculated the amount of energy required to warp spacetime. As in, the faster than light travel type. I don't think the human body contains as much energy as the mass of Jupiter. =P

I'm willing to bet physicists understand exactly what sort of forces it would take to warp spacetime... we just don't have the capability to actually perform the act.

[BoomChickn]

Well... /join guild. I have decided to get this game when it comes out, it just looks so damn good!

And so far everything that has looked good for me has turned out to be so.