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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 09:46 PM
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I like both dreams and dreamers, but ... ☺
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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 03:17 PM
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'C' is temperature, 'c' is the speed of light. :-)
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Forum: General Talk
07-30-2015, 05:18 AM
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Forum: General Talk
07-29-2015, 09:33 PM
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Forum: General Talk
07-29-2015, 08:04 PM
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Impressive ramble, AP. ☺
Ben Elton's (he of Black Adder, The Young Ones, etc) wrote an enjoyable novel called 'Stark', about a billionaire's secret attempt to escape a dying Earth to colonise elsewhere.
It's an elitist strategy, of course, because some people go, and four billion get left behind.
It doesn't substitute for multilateral economic, military and environmental agreements, however hard *they* look to bring about.
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Forum: General Talk
07-29-2015, 07:02 PM
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Gotcha! 😀
The ramjet is mooted for this, right, because you need 12 years of fuel with other methods.
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Forum: General Talk
07-29-2015, 05:43 PM
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If you think your local Blue Cross has red tape, Vincent, the branch on Alpha Centauri is outrageous.
Now, gentlemen, let's respect Auzzie Phoenix's wishes and not turn this into another 'Why I won't buy another K-3' thread!
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Forum: General Talk
07-29-2015, 01:32 PM
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It's interesting, asking people to stay on-topic in an off-topic forum, but there we have it. :-)
FWIW, the Bussard ramjet is a staple of science fiction. You can design the equivalent of a parachute to stop at the other end, hoping it doesn't get damaged.
The mission better be clear ... the motivations of the original travellers won't be matched by their descendants.
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Forum: General Talk
07-28-2015, 02:55 AM
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The ship's Monopoly set would get well used. 'I Spy' would rapidly become a bore as the decades went past.
The terrible thing, Aussie Phoenix, is that your scenario is more plausible than a lot of the Equivalence nutters' stuff I've read over the last week. ☺
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