Thread: October 14, First Contact

Even if they did all that "speed of light" travel, wouldn't there be problems with time dialation? What's the point of sending a ship somewhere 1000 ly away if they (or any info) won't be back for another 2000 years. Isn't this a valid problem?

The only solution I see for "ET" or our space travel is with wormholes or some other way of bending the fabric of space which would allow quick jumps from one point to another. I read about this Warp drive idea, which was apparently theoretised by some Mexican physicist. Wiki about faster-than-light and warp drive.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Even if they did all that "speed of light" travel, wouldn't there be problems with time dialation? What's the point of sending a ship somewhere 1000 ly away if they (or any info) won't be back for another 2000 years. Isn't this a valid problem?

If the trip is for colonization purposes, the trip need only be one way.

The only solution I see for "ET" or our space travel is with wormholes or some other way of bending the fabric of space which would allow quick jumps from one point to another. I read about this Warp drive idea, which was apparently theoretised by some Mexican physicist. Wiki about faster-than-light and warp drive.

Alcubierre drive is a useless metric. There's no way to get in or out of a "warp bubble". There's actually a real way to have nearly instantaneous travel, and that's by using relativistic ships that occasionally fly into the ergosphere of a spinning black hole and use it to travel back in time to counteract special relativity.

Originally Posted by drewmandan

If the trip is for colonization purposes, the trip need only be one way.



Alcubierre drive is a useless metric. There's no way to get in or out of a "warp bubble". There's actually a real way to have nearly instantaneous travel, and that's by using relativistic ships that occasionally fly into the ergosphere of a spinning black hole and use it to travel back in time to counteract special relativity.

Bah, you're just saying that to appear smarter than me .

Whats an ergosphere (And does a spinning black hole produce the "torus"/ring shaped singularity?). What's special relativity and why would you travel back in time?

ALIENS COMES TO EAT YOUR BABIES!!1!!!! Runs and get tinfoil hats!

Did the date magically change to a week earlier?

I'm sure whatever day it comes on it will change to a week later, and a week later, and a week later. It's never going to happen.

I kind of lost the nature of this topic, but I am mistaken if I say that at October the 15th it would be a good time to come here and laugh at the UFO-nuts? Seeing nothing important will happen the 14th.

I hope so.