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Subject: FUTURE STUFF
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if you've read the manual on halo then you'll know what i'm talkin about
the year is 2552 and i'll bet you're sayin -well, dur-
now, i don't know about you other gamers
but i think thats waaaaay too soon to be traveling faster than light
and colonizing on other planets much less other solar systems
we havent invented a new type of transportation in about 70 years (i'm not exactly sure when the model T came out)
and it talks about planet "Reach", and it says how it's conveineitly close to earth it is
how the crap can a planet just appear out of nowhere?
okay, i'm not knarkin on halo, i love halo i bought the xbox 60% cuz i'm a gamer 40%halo
let the debate begin...........................(i'm starting to like the xbox more thatn the others)

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  • 07.02.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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Considering the current rate of technological advancement I'd say we have a good chance of getting that far in 2552. Also Reach is conviently close to Earth. Only 10.7 light years away. It is the Epsilon Eridani system, a real star system that is known to have at least one planet around it.

  • 07.02.2004 8:56 AM PDT
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As for too close, comon! We at this very moment are developing quantom entangelment teleportation! BTW faster than light travel is impossible, you would have to be pure energy to do that. But to bend space and time to travel other planets is very plausible.

  • 07.02.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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We are talking 550 years here. Alot can happen over the course of 100 years easily. Look at the 20th century, radio, car, television, air plane.

  • 07.02.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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i'm tired of everyone knoing more than me

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Well scientists are toying with the idea that there is a thing like slipspace where everything is kinda of in a noter dimension, but really close. Which is how we can travel past the speed of light. And the bold statement saying you can't travel past the speed of light.

Light is only one particular speed, it also fluctuates in speed as well scientists are beginning to find out. Which means it is not concrete in how fast it goes. And the speed of light isn't some speed limit that once you reach it you can't go past it unless your energy. You can go past it, you just need the right type of technology to do it.

  • 07.02.2004 9:01 AM PDT
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So you callin Einstien a liar?

  • 07.02.2004 9:03 AM PDT
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Who says space is an exact unit? why can't there be hills and tunnels? That would explain alot about travel./

  • 07.02.2004 9:04 AM PDT

Faster-than-light travel in this case occurs in a different area that isn't bound by the physical laws that we know, so it would be possible. Of course, it could also involve something like a wormhole (allowed by Einstein).

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Also, once we'd colonized the other planets, we worry less about over-population, pollution, and loss of resources. I'm sure we'd find more fuels and materials for our space traveling needs on all of the planets that we colonize.

  • 07.02.2004 9:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sornos
So you callin Einstien a liar?


He has been proven wrong many times.

And yes I am calling him a liar. Besides he wasn't that brilliant anyways. Hell the man wore diapers until the age of 11 for crying out loud! If anything that screams retarded to me, not genius.

  • 07.02.2004 9:07 AM PDT
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We would have new ways of transportation now if it wasn't because the car companies think it's too expensive to support research for new ways of transportation, and that they don't think global warming is a problem and that fossile fuels will last for at least another hundred years

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In our universe, according to Einstien, FTL travel is impossible. But that does ont include the fact that there might be alternate universe where our laws of physics don't aply. Like Halo's slipspace.

  • 07.02.2004 9:08 AM PDT
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i'm tired of being the stupidest one in the forums : (

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  • 07.02.2004 9:15 AM PDT
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We would have new ways of transportation now if it wasn't because the car companies think it's too expensive to support research for new ways of transportation, and that they don't think global warming is a problem and that fossile fuels will last for at least another hundred years


They say fossil fuels will only last for another 60 years, not 100-or perhaps it is but they fixed it to go along with population growth claculations- but I estimate if that isn't the case, then at the growth of population today that it will probably be 40 yrs before fuels run out.I don't think non of this matters as we will have [color=orange]HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS[/color] soon (yay! another 15-25 yrs I think)

As for this topic-are you serious? I would think that we would have developed the tech in halo before the middle of the 26th century! technology is growing in two ways-currently a pretty fast pace, and as time goes on that pace increases more and more-i've seen the research for how quickly human knowledge doubles and it is quite astounding.

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I figure humans wont live to see 2050, what with atomic bombs and the US's secret plan to take over the world....not to mention "star wars" (not the movie, the military idea/project)

  • 07.02.2004 10:22 AM PDT
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lol...i dont know what year it'll be, but we will end up killing ourselves unless we go to another planet to live...you know, it's like a whole bunch of people locked in a room for years. they'll all start to go crazy and kill each other eventually unless they get out

  • 07.02.2004 11:11 AM PDT
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Try looking at it from this point of view:
In 1350 most people thought the earth was flat, and if someone came down with the flu they would lacerate your wrist, 550 years later you had automatic weapons, cars, and tanks (crappy WWI tanks, but tanks) and more. Five hundred years is a long time for invention and improvement. Look at the way transportations engines have evolved. Gas engine-jet engine- we also have nuclear reactors. 500 years of improvement = yummy stuff.

  • 07.02.2004 11:18 AM PDT
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They say fossil fuels will only last for another 60 years, not 100-or perhaps it is but they fixed it to go along with population growth claculations- but I estimate if that isn't the case, then at the growth of population today that it will probably be 40 yrs before fuels run out.I don't think non of this matters as we will have HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS soon (yay! another 15-25 yrs I think

Drez, you misunderstood me. I'm not saying that the fossile fuels will last a hundred years. I
heard an interview with an spokesman from a car company, and he said that fossile fuels would last a hundred years more, so he didn't consider it necessery to research new fuel sources. He didn't consider the global warming a big problem, and oil will be cheaper than other fuel sources for years to come.

My point is that new fuels will have a hard time coming out in the market if they are not supported by the companies that control the consumation of the fuels. If the car companies supported hydrogen fuel cell research more, and started doing it several years ago, we would already have hydrogen fuel cells in most cars.
If more companies sponsored space research, we could probably send people to pluto in a couple of years
(according to the halo timeline, the slipspace drive was invented when the earth were overpopulated, and space was the biggest area of research)

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  • 07.02.2004 11:51 AM PDT