Extra (solar system, galaxy - universal) Travel
Thinking, ive been reading alot of sci-fi books lately and ive emersed myself in alot of sci-fi culture from an early age and something that has always prevailed in my mind is Space-Travel. My favourite so far has to be the Halo Space Travel...In a nutshell a mythical engine called the Shaw-Fujikawa engine opens up a series of mini-black holes that are used to force the space ship into a sub-catagorey dimension in which time is still a factor in distance travelled but it is does not play as large a role as in normal space dimension, another good one is the Star Trek theory where the ship tears a whole in the fabric of space and then folds space in on itself and exits on the other side of the fold, basically think of space as a piece of cloth and to get from one part of the cloth to another you cut a whole and fold the cloth imbetween you and the place you want to exit the Star Trek Theory, another great one is the Futurama theory where super dense black material is used for its immense exponential output of energy to move space itself around the space ship...i guess what im getting at is what are you guys thoughts on the Texture of space
posted by Business Students' Association @ 10:01 PM
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My thoughts are... 1.it's awesome
2.I want to do it 3.I want to do it in this play... but not in a science-fiction way... in a more philosphical way where time and physical space don't matter because they don't separate people...
I still don't know quite how to explain this but I'm thinking that characters from different times (very recent) and different countries will be able to interact with each other in a dimension outside of our reality... like what if anyone who thought enough about the stars, or stared at them long enough, or listened to them hard enough (or something like this) were transported to somewhere in between the stars where they are the only people who exist there....
Agh. That's a terrible description, sorry. I'll just have to try to write it in the play and show you there. But something with the mood of Solaris... where the dimension is mysterious and infuses all of the action/dialogue with an usual quality but still is about human emotion and experiences.
Anywho. Where do you all want to space travel to? And what if you could never come back to this reality or to this Earth? Would you still want to go?
It's hard to say where I'd like to space travel to because I don't know any destinations I can currently go to. Maybe one day they'll have travel agents for the cosmos and a directory with descriptions of where to go and how long it'd take to get there. But the chances of that happening during my lifetime properly are so low that I wouldn't want to leave what I have here. I'm not so much a person who fears the unknown but who fears failure. And if I went off somewhere that wasn't any better or even worse than Earth maybe in the fact that it lacks an atmosphere or whatever, I'd regret it, and I'd see an adventure like that as a failure and a waste of my life. Because we only have one shot. And I guess sticking to the familiar is the way people preserve themselves. So unless I was sure that my descendents were going to be able to thrive where I was going, no, I wouldn't leave to never come back. I wouldn't want to go.
I was also thinking about something like how we've got 6 degrees of separation between everyon on earth. But what about all the people who died. Because you know your grandparents and they knew 100 people and their population on the planet was less than it is now so there's MORE people youc an be connected to, and if you think about all of humanity since we evolved enough to be considered homo sapiens, then maybe I'm connected to attila the hun by 25 people. Or king henry the 8th by 10 people. Something like that. I can't even start to think about how that's mathematically feasible, but it's amazing to think about.
Tough questions. I guess I would want to space travel to the center of the universe. If everything has been moving outwards since the big bang then in the center of the universe there should be nothing. Or there should be something that's drawing the Universe back into it trillions of years from now. Or I'd travel to Tatooine. That would kick ass. And I'd be a smuggler and transport Jedis to Alderaan.
But what if I couldn't come back? If I left this reality would I want to come back? What makes a different world so exciting is that you have this world to compare it to. Luke thought life on Tatooine was pretty boring because he never got to see what Earth was like. If I was part of another world and couldn't come back to this one then eventually the new world would become just as drag and advenureless as this one is. But then what if it was like Sliders and you just keep advancing to new dimensions and planets. You wouldn't need to come back because the adventure just keeps going. Most importantly I think it depends on who goes with you. If I had to leave my friends behind and enver see them again then I wouldn't go but if they got to come with me then it would be one hell of an adventure. To quote Frank Herbert "Leaving people is a sadness. A place is just a place".
I really like that idea of yours, the dimension for stargazers =)
sinead, that's exactly it. so well said.
My first thought is that space travel would be totally cool and I want to go right now! I don't know where I'd go because I don't know enough about space. But i know I'd want to go.
But then, if I weren't completely positive I could come back whenever I wanted to, the idea doesn't seem as cool anymore. I'd miss to much. I'd miss my family and friends, and CTWS, and grass and trees and christmas.
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