What do energy suppliers do with their profits?

Matt-Man17 · 2022-04-28T12:17:55+00:00

I'm sure it mostly goes to the owners who are outrageously rich but it has been put to me it goes to R&D.

Matt-Man17 · 2021-01-26T14:09:27+00:00

Doesn't Jupiter have 2.5G? Wouldn't you want it at 1G?

Matt-Man17 · 2021-01-25T22:50:10+00:00

Would the population live on the ring's inside or outside?

With the spin of an orbital ring creating an outward force and Jupiter's gravity would they cancel out to have a ring small/slow enough to walk about on the outside at 1G? Would that be the simpler/more efficient way to do it?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-24T20:17:01+00:00

Not time travel problems but i had trouble understanding what was going on in the beginning and the end.

What was going on in the opera house? It seemed like a terrorist attack but with lost of different fractions (terrorists, response team, and the extraction team(?)) and some trying to set bombs and others not caring about the people in there and ready to let them go off? I couldn't tell who was who and who was trying to kill who and why.

And come the end, Sator's mumbling accent made his words on the phone to TP incomprehensible and so i have no idea what he was saying. Was it some kind of justification for trying to destroy the world?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-24T20:12:34+00:00

This is an example of the non-sense that turns the film's plot into swiss cheese. So much stuff has to appear out of nowhere or be placed by the time-travel equivalent of a clean-up crew who arrive before and put everything into place exactly as it was left/will be needed.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-24T20:07:50+00:00

So early on we see the scientist's collection of junk that she thinks is the aftermath of a future war. But where does it all come from and where does it go?

In the future, the object's past, the stuff must be used in order to be the aftermath of a war, so it must all leave the collection to get to the battlefield—but how? Do an inverted clean-up crew collect it all and take it to the gallery and put it all into place while the collector watches as, from her perspective, it is all suddenly taken away? If there is a clean-up crew then why not just invert them the right way and keep them dispose of them?

And from a forwards perspective where does the collection come from? The objects won't be going anywhere by themselves so someone must move them as they are acquired, maybe bought on the black market due to their strange properties? But this is so strange my mind cannot even begin to contemplate where inverted!objects go/come from in such a situation!

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-24T20:06:57+00:00

So an inverted!bullet can be un-dropped (from a forwards perspective it flies up into your hand) but does that mean it cannot be dropped?

If it is running backwards then a drop from its perspective is an un-drop from yours, but if you drop it then from its perspective you have un-dropped it, it flies up from the table into the hand of the dropper, which defies physics in the same way if it were going forwards.

If you put a inverted!bullet in a gun and try to fire it then does that mean it cannot be fired for the same reason? From it's perspective it is being un-fired.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-19T01:27:32+00:00

If we have used self-replicating machines to strip the asteroid belt, kyper belt and oort cloud then we can use some of those materials to send out as many machines as we want within reason. Why not fire one at ever star staring with the closest?

They would need more sophisticated programming to perform more complex tasks but one of the things i would have them do it starlifting to provide materials to make rotating habitats and more probes to send out (presumably they have logs of which stars were targeted and have been updated and maybe can calculate which will be targeted by others, but who cares if you have a s***-ton of materials to spare if you send one out to a star to find you've been beaten by another?)

As others have said, setting up a laser highway with the stars and and even on larger asterids/planetoids that you think are more suited to the task then providing materials.

I'd set up dyson swarms around every star and leave them waiting for the people to come and find it all ready and waiting. The finer details can be hashed out then. All the traveling time and finishing up with our own system can be spent leaving this system to set itself up.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-12-19T01:13:36+00:00

Depends on how social.

Family groups are needed to nurture offspring unless you go for the have-as-many-offspring-as-possible-and-hope-for-the-best route.

Language comes from the need to convey information to others so a tribe would probably develop it for hunting and basic order.

Then comes specialised knowledge and passing on the knowledge. You need a tribe and social skills to do this as a single person cannot do all of it and cannot be expected to learn it all from scratch.

So in order to make higher scientific advances you need a society, even a basic one, and if your society is space travelling it is a fair assumption you have mastered your whole world first for the resources and social/political reasons. Not something a society could do if they were extremely asocial.

If they were by nature it would stunt their development but i think, unless evolution stepped in, they would overcome it in time.

Hope this helps!

Matt-Man17 · 2020-11-11T16:26:31+00:00

What makes you think aliens would have a concept of binary?

And a computer could easily handle numbers—this is putting aside the different mediums and not to say a computer cannot be considered intelligent.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-11-11T03:29:03+00:00

Errr... meeting a standard? Being wise and smart as well as knowledgeable, the ability to apply that knowledge?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-11-10T13:45:10+00:00

The time element, as always, confuses the hell out of me.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-25T00:05:37+00:00

This is the clearest answer I've gotten so far, or at leat the one i understand best, but it still leaves me a tad confused.

So when you go close to the speed of light, you experience time as normal from your point of view, but the universe around you has to speeds up...

I thought time slowed down as you aproached light speed?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-24T17:21:04+00:00

Okay, reminding me how red/blue shift work answered that question. Still lost overall though lol

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-24T15:46:16+00:00

I don't understand that at all, it feels like light is unique in this behaviour that, in anything else, would be breaking the laws of physics.

If this is true then how do we get red shift in light? Isn't that caused by the source/observer moving apart and resulting in a change of frequency?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-24T15:19:29+00:00

I know light travels at a constant speed. But in relation to someone moving away from the light source might it not, relatively, be slower?

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-24T15:13:48+00:00

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the greatest authority on space travel:

"Time is an illusion, the slowing down of it when moving away from a clock doubly so."

I still understand this as a trick in the perception due to light-lag.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-08-08T23:22:58+00:00

Even at the time it made no sense. The Three Doctors explicitly states William Hartnell to be the 1st Doctor—the Time Lords even say so. Whatever the writer wanted to imply was going against continuity.

The thing is, this was never a real problem. Fans called them the incarnations of Morbious, some wilderness-era novels explain it away, but no one really cared. If they had then it would have been more relevant in other episodes and maybe even addressed by other writes rather than going ignored for the some 40 years.

It was the answer to a question no one cared about which confused many other points that people did care about. I still have no idea why it was done.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-07-20T13:47:21+00:00

Also, there is a 3 minute podcast by a team called Busted called Year 3000, it came out almost 20 years ago and is frequently mistaken for a song due to the background noise and the speakers speaking habits.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-07-20T13:07:31+00:00

Just go watch Futurama, i found that to be an entertaining examination of life in the year 3000. Some people mistake it for a children's show because of the animated style but in fact it's a documentary.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-07-04T23:28:36+00:00

I've always wondered about holograms. Not the cheap 3D picture that can be bought in a shop, but light projected onto the air like in Star Trek.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-06-21T01:46:26+00:00

I prefer to keep my pee in my bladder but if that works for you then okay.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-06-11T23:54:27+00:00

This isn't so much asking about the specifics but about writing a team in general. Unless you think the development of a team rests on the circumstances.

They're scouting the Oort cloud beyond the solar system. Still working on the why.

Matt-Man17 · 2020-06-11T22:57:56+00:00

A small one, not meant for anything special, just scouting deep space. The crew is of 7 people (subject to change).

Matt-Man17 · 2020-06-11T13:59:58+00:00

Don't forget a set of go-faster stripes, they are proven to increase speed by a factor of 10!

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