Planet found in nearest star system to Earth
2Cdo @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:38 am
Gunnair Gunnair:
2Cdo 2Cdo:
I'm still waiting for my flying car. 
Already developed......at Talladega!
I meant purpose built, not accidental!
Lemmy @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:50 am
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
And where the hell is my robot maid? She should be making me a sammich right now. Well, at least we finally got "visiphones", kind of.
What we really need is one of those replicator doo-dads from Star Trek. You know, you tell it what you want and open the door and there's a turkey sandwich, fashioned out of thin-air.
Once science licks the problem of resource scarcity through technology, all the world's economists can retire to the Caribbean and get on with the business of drinking ourselves to death.
Gunnair @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:01 am
Thanos Thanos:
According to this, the best we could do to get there would be 400 years using a solar sail technology. Lots of money to spend for a generation-ship and we still don't even know if there's an inhabitable planet there.
Sci-fi lied to us. It took Voyager 1 31 years to get to the outer edge of the solar system, and that was travelling at 17 kilometers per second. Without warp/hyperdrive and anti-matter power we're permanently stuck here on the only inhabitable planet we'll ever know. Quite depressing when you think of it.
Sci-fi lied to us. It took Voyager 1 31 years to get to the outer edge of the solar system, and that was travelling at 17 kilometers per second. Without warp/hyperdrive and anti-matter power we're permanently stuck here on the only inhabitable planet we'll ever know. Quite depressing when you think of it.
We'd be living on Mars by now if it weren't for the evils of pot prohibition.
Lemmy @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:07 am
Gunnair Gunnair:
We'd be living on Mars by now if it weren't for the evils of pot prohibition.
Facetious though your intent was, you may be right. If society had taken all of the wasted law enforcement, court and prison dollars plus man-effort over the past 80 years and put them towards space exploration, maybe we would be tanning ourselves on a red beach (well, other than Cuba's) by now.
Gunnair @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:11 am
Lemmy Lemmy:
Gunnair Gunnair:
We'd be living on Mars by now if it weren't for the evils of pot prohibition.
Facetious though your intent was, you may be right. If society had taken all of the wasted law enforcement, court and prison dollars plus man-effort over the past 80 years and put them towards space exploration, maybe we would be tanning ourselves on a red beach (well, other than Cuba's) by now.
Ah...we're both being facetious now.
Lemmy @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:13 am
Maybe. I'd be curious to know what the total value of dollars spent and man-hours spent on pot prohibition has been over the past 80 years. I suspect it's many times the number of hours and dollars spent on the USA's space program over that period.
2Cdo @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:20 am
Lemmy Lemmy:
Maybe. I'd be curious to know what the total value of dollars spent and man-hours spent on pot prohibition has been over the past 80 years. I suspect it's many times the number of hours and dollars spent on the USA's space program over that period.
I doubt it would have been funneled to the space program, but I bet we would have about 150 different flavours of Doritos chips to choose from!
Gunnair @ Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:26 am
2Cdo 2Cdo:
Lemmy Lemmy:
Maybe. I'd be curious to know what the total value of dollars spent and man-hours spent on pot prohibition has been over the past 80 years. I suspect it's many times the number of hours and dollars spent on the USA's space program over that period.
I doubt it would have been funneled to the space program, but I bet we would have about 150 different flavours of Doritos chips to choose from!
Zing!
