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Title: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Grasshopper on January 09, 2006, 08:37:17 pm
OK, not quite, but still an interesting article.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: danny_galaga on January 10, 2006, 07:50:34 am
OK, not quite, but still an interesting article.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html

wow, i've burnt my fingers experimenting with chemicals, and a friend lost an eye. but losing both forarms and most of your hearing and sight is pretty hard-core  :o
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:00:51 pm

Just this part scares me:  lattice quantum chromodynamics
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Harry Potter on January 10, 2006, 12:01:44 pm
Great. Now we'll have to pay taxes for hyperspace bypasses.  >:(
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:02:39 pm

So, dude is brilliant, comes up with hyperdrive, but has multiple severe disabilities from a lab accident...

...so when does he turn into a supervillian and blame his accident on that meddling Spiderman?
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Harry Potter on January 10, 2006, 12:04:32 pm
WTF????
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:05:31 pm

You've never read many comic books, have you?

That is the origin of pretty much every supervillian.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Stingray on January 10, 2006, 12:06:32 pm
Great. Now we'll have to pay taxes for hyperspace bypasses.  >:(

We're going to need to knock down your house to make way for the new bypass. If you would like to view the plans they're on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard'.

-S
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Harry Potter on January 10, 2006, 12:07:16 pm

You've never read many comic books, have you?

That is the origin of pretty much every supervillian.
Oh sorry. I wasn't replying to your post. Accidental post.  :-[
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:08:30 pm

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These are, Dr
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 12:08:59 pm
Great. Now we'll have to pay taxes for hyperspace bypasses.  >:(

Yeah, but...

Earth to Proxima Centauri in 80 days...  Wow.

I wanna get to point D badly.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 12:09:48 pm
We're going to need to knock down your house to make way for the new bypass. If you would like to view the plans they're on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard'.

-S

Thats the display department.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Harry Potter on January 10, 2006, 12:11:42 pm
Great. Now we'll have to pay taxes for hyperspace bypasses.  >:(

Yeah, but...

Earth to Proxima Centauri in 80 days...  Wow.

I wanna get to point D badly.
I prefer point E. The pub.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:12:19 pm

I'm going to attach the engine to my foot and take it straight to Uranus.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Stingray on January 10, 2006, 12:13:01 pm
We're going to need to knock down your house to make way for the new bypass. If you would like to view the plans they're on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard'.

-S

Thats the display department.

"I had to bring a torch"

"The lights had probably gone"

"So had the stairs"

-S
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 12:13:30 pm
Woops.  D was the cottage, right.

Never said I could spel.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: ChadTower on January 10, 2006, 12:16:00 pm

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Several years ago, while an undergraduate at the University of Hamburg, he took a careful look at Heim theory. He says he finds it "largely incomprehensible", and difficult to tie in with today's physics. "What is needed is a step-by-step introduction, beginning at modern physical concepts," he says.


I.E. "I need to get smarter."
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 12:17:57 pm
Remember, this was recently... He doesn't need to get smarter, the classes need to be dumbed down.

Think of the kids left behind and their feelings, man.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Grasshopper on January 10, 2006, 01:04:28 pm
I prefer using an infinite improbability drive myself. All this messing around in hyperspace gives me a headache.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Grasshopper on January 10, 2006, 01:07:34 pm
Great. Now we'll have to pay taxes for hyperspace bypasses.  >:(

Yeah, but...

Earth to Proxima Centauri in 80 days...  Wow.

I wanna get to point D badly.

Actually IIRC Proxima Centauri is only about 4 light years away and the article says you could travel 11 light years in 80 days.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 01:10:09 pm
Not with my wife and kids.

You must be single if you think you can get anywhere on time.

"I gotta pee..."

"Ooh, flea market..."

"Whats that noise..."
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Grasshopper on January 10, 2006, 01:13:32 pm
Not with my wife and kids.

You must be single if you think you can get anywhere on time.

"I gotta pee..."

"Ooh, flea market..."

"Whats that noise..."

Yeah hadn't thought of that. Also, there might be traffic on the hyperspace byepass.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 01:55:38 pm
Can you have traffic in hyperspace?  Hyperspace is overrated anyway.  You always come out in front of a rock.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: saint on January 10, 2006, 02:52:46 pm
You must have older kids. #3 should be: "What's that smell..."

Not with my wife and kids.

You must be single if you think you can get anywhere on time.

"I gotta pee..."

"Ooh, flea market..."

"Whats that noise..."
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 03:21:25 pm
2 years old.  We KNOW what that smell is.

My wife on the otherhand, thinks my 10 year old Explorer is likely to fall apart at any given time.  Ergo, the noise comment.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: missioncontrol on January 10, 2006, 03:37:20 pm
well being an Explorer it should have allready fallen apart.....


I mean after all you're lucky to get 70,000 miles out of the transmission.....


Stupid Ford replacing the Bronco for that crap.........
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on January 10, 2006, 03:59:05 pm
We went thru this already somewhere else.

The tranny DID fall out at 70k.
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: missioncontrol on January 10, 2006, 11:33:10 pm
oh yeah that was you......... I though Stingray had an Exploder.....
Title: Re: Hyperdrive is real!
Post by: psik0tik on January 14, 2006, 05:14:40 pm
Now thats a DIY project for your arse..they told us how to build it. Forget that hour commute to work