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Subject: Do you think our technology will match that of the UNSC in 500 years?
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It's not one of the larger, more wealthy country that wold start the war. It would be a more desperate country, like Iran for example, but the larger countries would get sucked in.

A large scale nuclear war probably wouldn't completely destroy humanity but it essentially put us back to the stone age, well bronze age for sure.

  • 04.18.2011 11:05 AM PDT
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500 years from now...

Read Revelation.

  • 04.18.2011 11:22 AM PDT
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Humanity can go a lot further than UNSC in 500 years. as long as we want to. if we want to stop using oil, or scrap all nuclear bombs and forgot it, or whatever. then we could do it.

  • 04.18.2011 1:00 PM PDT

"If you treat people right, they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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-John-117

Personally, I think that it depends on how much war the world will see. Humanity tends to expand on technology rapidly when we're trying to kill one another.

  • 04.18.2011 1:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: tsassi2
UNSC uses fusion. It's very hard to produce and hasn't been very efficient this far. Why not antimatter? Only problems with it are actually production and containment. If we solve those we can transfer 100% of energy to another form. There sure are no effiency problems.

Fusion is, as far as I am aware, at the very top of the alternative, large scale, long term energy sources. It is far more efficient than fission, is cleaner, safer (No radioactive waste) and is only, at the most, a decade away from being demonstrated as practical.

Antimatter as a power source is awful. It takes more energy to manufacture it than what you will get in return from annihilating it, not just from the simple inefficiencies in whatever power generation system you use but also in the fact that a large amount of the energy from the reaction is lost in the form of neutrinos. These particles cannot be stopped and carry their energy away to infinity.

Posted by: tsassi2
For me existence of slipspace sounds as possible or even normal as mass-energy equivalence. If you say that slipspace can't exist why don't you say the mass of an object isn't dependent on it's speed?

Because there is evidence for mass-energy equivalence and it is a part of a very broad scientific theory, that covers a lot of phenomenon, that is almost certainly true. There is no evidence for slipspace. Also, it is not that people are saying slipspace cannot exist, it is just that there is nothing to suggest that it does exist.

"Cheating" the laws of physics for FTL is all good until you hear about causality. With Relativity, FTL implies time travel. Most sci-fi writers have not heard of it and those that have tend to ignore it because it is a pain in the ass.

Relativity, FTL, Causality; Pick two.

Nothing as of yet suggests that Relativity is wrong, so it looks like it is here to stay.

Causality is basically "cause, then effects". Throw it out and you throw that order out. The idea of effects preceding causes makes no sense, and many physicists think that the universe will prohibit any action that leads to time travel. Others think that causality is merely a guideline, not a law, so could be violated. In that case FTL would be possible, but it would be a double whammy. You could get to the right place, but at the wrong time. (Arriving at a colony before it even exists, etc)

So if you want to keep the laws of physics (And any measure of common sense), FTL goes.

[Edited on 04.18.2011 3:31 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2011 3:18 PM PDT
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Just about every thing I post is my opinion and nothing more. Be subjective. Respect other's opinions. Try to understand other's point of view.

Bottom line is that every thing to deo with alternate universes, extra dimensions, worm holes, time bending and so forth is just theories. All we know for sure is that things with massive gravity skews how we measure time.

It's not proven that time isn't constant. We simply don't have the grasp on physics that we would like to believe. All we know is that there are things out there that have mass that we don't even know about.

I would love to be wrong but there's nothing out there that's realistic that shows FTL travel is even possible.

Every thing else the UNC has is already surpassed or will be one day.

  • 04.18.2011 3:58 PM PDT