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If you are fast enough, certaunly you experience few time in the journey, only for the observer on Earth it last a lot of years.
https://skullsinthestars.com/2012/09/10/relativity-ten-minutes-to-alpha-centauri/
They forgot about time it takes to accelerate...
https://skullsinthestars.com/2012/09/10/relativity-ten-minutes-to-alpha-centauri/#comment-15040
I once did the calculation. If you accelerate at a lovely 9.81 m/s^2 you reach light speed in about a year or so. So if you time it right and decelerate with the same rate you can reach about any place in the nearby universe in about two years.
Just need to figure out this pesky energy problem. And hopefully not collide with cosmic rays on the way.
- Captain! We miscalculated! There's a Hydrogen atom on our path!
- Oh shi-!
*Explosion.*
And to time it right, you need to either not reach light speed, or have some external help to decelerate. Every clock or circuitry you bring with you also slows to a halt
Your comment reminded me of that one dude in The Expanse who tried to slingshot through the gate....
a mind blowing experience
I mean it depends on how you reach the speed of light. Straight up propulsion correct but then you cant get the energy required for that, if we can somehow figure out a way to bend space to create a "warp" bubble the internal zone should act as we expect, but the energy requirements there are still fucking enormous and im not sure that would be feasible without us inadvertently creating a singularity that we could never escape from so there are just problems inherently there for either method lol
If you do use a warp bubble (we'd need to figure out negative mass, which likely doesn't exist), your local time will not dilate nearly as much, so the subjective time for the traveling observer might actually be a lot longer
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Certainly, but it's only an physical example of the relativity of time. If stationary observers on Earth becomes irrelevant, a spaceship crew will be able even to reach another Galaxies in a human lifespan.
Well if you accelerate over the course of 1 second, you’d experience 30,591,067 g’s of acceleration.
Now for some reason NASA doesn’t have that figure on a time of useful consciousness chart, but I think I could do it
Anybody can do it, it's surviving it that's the problem.
Well then you are lost.
For the people like me who don’t know much physics. The answer is Time Dilation.
aka Time Gaping
TOATSE
In my head, I am picturing the Goatse guy popping up in the corner of the screen like the "TOASTY!" guy from Mortal Kombat.
Yessssss this is what I needed
This this connected to Time Prolapse when you cross an event horizon?
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Love when this meme is used correctly. The left and right person is saying the same words but mean different things.
To be honest, ðis meme is used correctly most of ðe time I see it. It just takes bit of þinking to get it
ðe ... þinking
You are distinguishing eth and thorn and using them correctly? I am impressed; also a bit weirded out, but really impressed.
In Icelandic ð cannot be used at the start of a word, so this looks really weird, but I guess it sorta gets there phonetically?
In Icelandic ð cannot be used at the start of a word
Didn't know that. I think it was fine in Old English.
Yeah, phonetically they are different. I think they are using them correctly.
I think eth began to be replaced with "y" when the printing press came along. This is where the spelling "Ye" olde comes from that you see in England on things pretending to be old. Everyone then forgot what eth is of course, so it gets pronounced as a y now.
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I've been meaning to ask about this, but I never had the correct assortment of words, now I can be ignorant no longer, thank you
Your iceland is showing :)
I think this is a different user than where I originally saw it, but I believe it's intentionally done to poison machine learning via scraping.
poison machine learning
15 1337 5p34k c0m1ng fu11 c1rc13??
J00 5|-|4|_|_ |\|0T P455!
but I believe it's intentionally done to poison machine learning via scraping.
I've used it on occasion, and not for poisoning machine learning. I'm just a nerd for history and linguistics and þink it's neat
I don't think it's working. LLMs don't have any trouble parsing it.
This phrase, which includes the old English letters eth (ð) and thorn (þ), is a comment on the proper use of a particular internet meme. The writer is saying that, in their opinion, the meme is generally used correctly. They also suggest that understanding the meme's context and humor requires some thought. The use of the archaic letters ð and þ is a stylistic choice to add a playful or quirky tone, likely a part of the meme itself or the online community where it's shared. Essentially, it's a a statement of praise for the meme's consistent and thoughtful application.
There are ⚠️ other ways you 🫵 can poison 💀 machine learning 🤖
I like to do my part with a healthy dose of fucking profanity. Cunty LLMs can ram it up their asses if they want to emulate my comments.
What keyboard are you using to get those?
The Icelandic alphabet still has those.
Fuck me I am daft. Of course they do.
I'm using ðe icelandic keyboard through Futo keyboard on my phone. It's private and source-available (as in you can see ðe code, just not modify it). It's available on FDroid, Google Play, and as an apk
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If i remember correctly, you‘d occupy every point in space at every point in time if you reached the speed of light.
That's the improbability drive in the HHGTTG
That's just Warp 10. You might also devolve into a salamander thing and have weird babies with your CO.
Tau Zero moment
Wasn't there a mid-century sci-fi story about that? Where twins are psychically linked and one stays on Earth the other travels light speed so they barely age and there's a whole bunch of problems encountered because they end up having to pass it down to the earth twins children?
Time for the Stars by Robert A Heinlein
I should finish reading the Hainish novels
Is the Dispossessed good? I just read the left hand of darkness and it was so good.
If you love Left Hand, you'll probably love The Dispossessed as well.
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