The part about "Unless these beings have some FTL drive"...

alcaray — 4/30/2009 6:46:38 PM (archived)

...might be confusing to those without some science background. In my post above, I alluded to the same issue in a similarly weak and polite fashion when I said: "If you make the assumption that the universe works pretty much the way we think it does...".

We are all very used to science fiction depicting people going through "gates" or using "hyperspace drives" or whatever, to move quickly between stars. Even Superman has flown around between stars simply by pointing his fist and striking a valiant pose. Even in science fiction literature (not TV, comics, or movies), there are very few novels and stories that use the speed of light limit, compared to those that have some gimick to violate the speed limit.

I know you know this, Socrates, but I'm not sure everyone in this thread does: we have very convincing proofs and observational evidence that showing that traveling faster than the speed of light is impossible.

The whole thread (79 posts)

This really should be on Space but..... - Lindy - 4/27/2009 4:27:26 AM
- Serious UFO sighting - Buck Galaxy - 5/2/2009 2:50:04 AM
- And here's one from this morning - Lindy - 4/30/2009 2:39:09 PM
- The origin of crop circles - S - 4/29/2009 10:03:35 PM
  - Tulley Saucer nest - Lindy - 4/30/2009 5:09:04 PM
- re: This really should be on Space but..... - Doug Ellison - 4/29/2009 8:58:52 PM
  - "Why should it have started in Space?" - Lindy - 4/30/2009 12:25:37 AM
    - FYI - The Arecibo Message was not a NASA project - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 1:29:29 PM
      - As if I didn't know? - Lindy - 4/30/2009 2:24:03 PM
        
        That particular crop "circle", while detailed... - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 2:51:27 PM
        
        The last time someone got caught making one... - Lindy - 4/30/2009 4:07:21 PM
        
        If that is all they do, making patterns in fields and disappearing... - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 5:37:44 PM
        
        "what are we supposed to do?" - Lindy - 4/30/2009 5:52:08 PM
        
        But I am not really learning anything of value - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 6:07:09 PM
    - To clarify things, here's a comparison - Lindy - 4/30/2009 1:14:54 AM
      - re: To clarify things, here's a comparison - Doug Ellison - 4/30/2009 4:26:41 PM
- re: This really should be on Space but..... - Johannes - 4/29/2009 2:55:37 AM
- Monkeyshines - S - 4/27/2009 7:17:33 PM
- Outstanding. (n/t) - Jody - 4/27/2009 12:21:00 PM
- Man made (n/t) - Raoul - 4/27/2009 5:31:47 AM
  - re: "Man made"...typical monkey talk - Lindy - 4/28/2009 4:11:28 AM
    - For years I've looked at your anomolies. - alcaray - 4/28/2009 8:04:38 PM
      - Why do you have such a low opinion of our significance? (n/t) - Jody - 4/29/2009 3:47:04 PM
        
        I don't follow you. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/29/2009 11:18:48 PM
        
        I jumped ahead of myself...sorry.. - Jody - 4/30/2009 12:42:33 AM
        
        We are worth the visit but the road is long - S - 4/30/2009 8:45:57 PM
        
        D'oh... - Jody - 5/1/2009 12:29:39 AM
        
        I suppose - S - 5/1/2009 3:21:56 PM
        
        Why are you making this a gender issue? - Socrates II - 5/1/2009 1:44:57 PM
        
        Sorry...I did not mean too... - Jody - 5/1/2009 2:58:35 PM
        
        That is the wonderful thing about the Universe - Socrates II - 5/1/2009 3:12:15 PM
        
        Amen! - Jody - 5/1/2009 3:16:29 PM
        
        re: Amen! - Socrates II - 5/1/2009 5:06:16 PM
        
        Ahhh. - alcaray - 4/30/2009 5:32:07 AM
        
        Exactly - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 1:33:25 PM
        
        The part about "Unless these beings have some FTL drive"... - alcaray - 4/30/2009 6:46:38 PM
        
        FTL - Lindy - 4/30/2009 8:17:30 PM
        
        Who were you quoting? - alcaray - 5/1/2009 12:28:35 AM
        
        Exactly, Part II - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 7:02:56 PM
        
        "How would we go about it?" - Lindy - 4/30/2009 1:21:30 AM
      - "There is nothing there that could not be made by men." - Lindy - 4/29/2009 3:11:49 AM
        
        Other Possibilities - S - 4/29/2009 1:27:29 PM
        
        That is not thinking outside the box.!!!! MEN!!!! - Jody - 4/29/2009 3:07:00 PM
        
        What I mean by that is we do not know what *they are thinking* (n/t) - Jody - 4/29/2009 3:23:37 PM
        
        They won't be coming after our water - Socrates II - 4/29/2009 2:12:00 PM
        
        "Landing markers for the colonists....." - Lindy - 4/29/2009 3:03:04 PM
        
        Good points - S - 4/29/2009 2:50:38 PM
        
        Interesting "stuff" - Lindy - 4/29/2009 3:07:05 PM
        
        We know why they were built - Socrates II - 4/29/2009 4:24:48 PM
        
        Stonehenge - S - 4/29/2009 11:49:56 PM
        
        "Stonehenge was â€œthe neolithic A&E unit for southern Englandâ€. - Lindy - 4/30/2009 3:36:18 AM
        
        The Stonehenge Riverside Project - Socrates II - 4/30/2009 1:42:22 PM
        
        An engineer's viewpoint - Lindy - 4/29/2009 3:21:31 AM
        
        Amazing ... - Jody - 4/29/2009 7:22:48 AM
        
        re: Amazing ... - Lindy - 4/29/2009 1:03:20 PM
    - An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence - Raoul - 4/28/2009 5:30:35 AM
      - "He explained how he did it" - Lindy - 4/28/2009 1:23:54 PM
      - re: An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence - Doug Ellison - 4/28/2009 6:44:33 AM
        
        re: An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence - Lindy - 4/28/2009 1:28:00 PM
        
        Science will have about as much luck getting rid of the idea - Socrates II - 4/28/2009 12:57:28 PM
        
        "It's all about faith, of course" - Lindy - 4/28/2009 1:08:51 PM
        
        I tried something different here - Socrates II - 4/28/2009 1:13:10 PM
        
        re: I tried something different here - Lindy - 4/28/2009 1:34:52 PM
        
        You miss one major point - Socrates II - 4/28/2009 1:44:12 PM
        
        re: You miss one major point - Lindy - 4/28/2009 4:12:05 PM
  - re: Man made - Lindy - 4/27/2009 9:25:54 PM
    - Circles from 2008 - Lindy - 4/27/2009 10:53:08 PM
  - re: Man made - Doug Ellison - 4/27/2009 9:07:36 AM
    - One thing that does not get considered very often - Socrates II - 4/27/2009 12:57:03 PM
      - Monkeys with keys. - Jody - 4/27/2009 3:52:03 PM
        
        I am almost sorry I used that phrase - Socrates II - 4/27/2009 4:11:26 PM
        
        Talk about monkeys with keys! (n/t) - Lindy - 4/27/2009 9:26:55 PM
        
        I apologize for my digression... - Jody - 4/27/2009 4:20:32 PM
        
        However... - Jody - 4/27/2009 4:22:55 PM
        
        re: However... - Socrates II - 4/27/2009 4:46:17 PM
        
        What if - Lindy - 4/30/2009 8:55:08 PM
        
        oops... - Jody - 4/27/2009 7:47:44 PM
        
        Thought about it... - Jody - 4/28/2009 5:34:10 PM
        
        The point of my mental exercise - Socrates II - 4/28/2009 5:46:03 PM

Recent posts

On this day in Off Topic

The whole thread (79 posts)