/sci/ - Science & Math

Finally, around two and a half kilometers down, I broke through to the first section of uncollapsed tunnel. Hmm... Fusion torch vitreous lining, much the same as my digging technology. Interesting that the attackers didn't seem to have such things, but the architect of this place did. The defending force hadn't blown the tunnel here, but they hadn't entirely run out of effective capabilities either. The place was a ruin, dense with relics of heavy battle. Both sides had clearly suffered very heavy losses here, and my suspicion was getting stronger. The new types of battle machinery I was finding here, all on the defensive side, although destroyed in action and corroded almost to dust were very clearly fully automated. Definitely no crew spaces. They'd fought well too - wrecks of the attackers from the surface outnumbered defender wrecks at least ten to one. By now this was giving me nightmares - horrible 'what if' dreams and simulations from my own past. Would I have lost like this?

This heavy battle zone extended only a couple of hundred more meters down the decline. Apparently that was all the armored defensive units available. Then there was another length of explosively collapsed tunnel, through which the attackers had dug a smaller shored-up way. This had since collapsed again, but just from decay. More fusion torch digging for me, this time emerging into a section with only damage from relatively light weapons. Defensive units here were mostly unarmored, in forms that suggested stretched resources, improvisation, and throwing last reserves of factory and general purpose servitors into the fray. Much more even kill ratios, even starting to favor the attackers the further in I went.

We are limited only by the laws of physics itself. Anything is possible. If we construct magical contrivances, we can bring abundance to everyone on the planet and live in indefinite prosperity.

This is what motivates me.

>>3568923
Cheaper, not free. Create unbeatable, carbon-neutral monopoly with a heart and face as angelic as Google presents.

>>3299260
>Outside of satellites and seeing if colonising another planet is of any use, space research is just a very expensive trivial pursuit.

No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%286178%29_1986_DA
>Asteroid 1986 DA achieved its most notable recognition when scientists revealed that it contained over "10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of "$90 billion for the gold and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel."[3]

And please watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g

>>3282640
Because I totally mentioned aliens.

Now, only one species will inherit the world. My distresses are ebbing, and I sense a new determination that was not there before. I have survived to lead what remains. I will live and my kind will live.

Evolution, finally, will truly be the impartial Judge. I now know how the First Man must have felt walking out the gates of Eden.

>>3175631
>We would never be able to live forever in our bodies now, it would have to be in computer form. Otherwise overpopulation would be a problem. At least until local space travel became available.

The deserts
The polar regions
The oceans

Over population is not going to be a problem for the next 100 years at least. And by the time it does become a problem we will have already gone forth and established colonies on many worlds in our own solar system, as well as having the materials with the strength that would allow shit like orbital O'Neill cylinders constructed.

>>2919759
>>2919766
Reaction Engines Skylon
Take a look at that shit brah

>>2845117
We will, one day,
Venture to the stars.

>>2812150
This anon is making it sound like gravitons have more merit than they actually have. The equations failed to represent reality adequately, but did represent reality to a significant degree.

This goes back to me saying:
"Yes Gravatons are basically a god of the gaps solution, "we don't understand so it must be that we are still right but this exists and we just can't demonstrate it!""

The model fails to represent a fundamental principle so the assumption you make is "well it must still be right!"

I agree that it is possible that gravitons exist, but I disagree with any assertion that it's "implied that they do exist" based on what we have observed, it flatly is not.

They may exist and if they do it would be useful to the present model, since it would mean what we have now is not wrong. History shows that it's more likely we're just wrong.

Gravitons as they are right now are unfalsifiable and as such non scientific just like a soul is, it doesn't matter if they would conveniently fix some fundamental problems with our models or not, science is not about what answers are most convenient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOd-PIV33Y

Space plane would most probably be less fuel efficient, but most likely to be re-useable.

No. I will get to experience the early days of planetary exploration, and then interstellar travel. Perhaps even intergalactic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLMDaj8N8w&feature=related

/sci/ in a nutshell.

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