I like how the Apollo Program gets canceled, but somehow or another NASA secretly launches a big ol' Saturn 5 from Cape Canaveral and no one notices.
Now, c'mon. If you could believe that a single pilot took part in the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, AND the Doolittle Raid, I'm sure you can suspend belief long enough to accept that they launched Apollo 18 in utter secrecy...
Now, c'mon. If you could believe that a single pilot took part in the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, AND the Doolittle Raid, I'm sure you can suspend belief long enough to accept that they launched Apollo 18 in utter secrecy...
I can believe that slow boy from Alabama was awarded Medal of Honor for his Viet Nam heroics, became a ping-pong champion, co-founded a billion dollar food empire, met Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and ran repeatedly across the USA...but not that.
Now, c'mon. If you could believe that a single pilot took part in the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, AND the Doolittle Raid, I'm sure you can suspend belief long enough to accept that they launched Apollo 18 in utter secrecy...
They did it at night so nobody would see?I like how the Apollo Program gets canceled, but somehow or another NASA secretly launches a big ol' Saturn 5 from Cape Canaveral and no one notices.
They did it at night so nobody would see?
I was thinking more of Capricorn One...the problem becomes when some movie director wants to pass his own version of events as a "true" story like Oliver Stone did with his JFK movie.
Another dumb movie to further blur the lines between reality and fantasy for the idiots in this country that don't know the difference.
Are you trying to tell me that Star Wars isn't based on a true story?
I dunno - I once had to listen to two knuckleheads in the next cubicle spend hours arguing whether the Star Trek Enterprise could beat a Star Wars Imperial Battle Cruiser. And these were two grown men.
...or NCC-1701E in the later movies with the quantum torpedoes or Admiral Riker's flagship (NCC-1701F?) with the superphasers (see episode "All Good Things...")?But which Star Trek Enterprise? NCC-1701? NCC-1701D
Oh, Lordy.
They finally gave up and said since the two ships existed in totally different time periods, there would be no way to ever find out.
I can believe that slow boy from Alabama was awarded Medal of Honor for his Viet Nam heroics, became a ping-pong champion, co-founded a billion dollar food empire, met Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and ran repeatedly across the USA...but not that.
That, and in different galaxies.
I dunno - I once had to listen to two knuckleheads in the next cubicle spend hours arguing whether the Star Trek Enterprise could beat a Star Wars Imperial Battle Cruiser. And these were two grown men.
That reminds me: In Star Trek: Voyager, they initially figure it will take them 70 years or so to get across the galaxy at maximum warp, but is anyone aware of any science fiction that deals with travel from one galaxy to another? It seems like that would be an interesting concept to explore, and there are so many of them.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_142.html
That reminds me: In Star Trek: Voyager, they initially figure it will take them 70 years or so to get across the galaxy at maximum warp, but is anyone aware of any science fiction that deals with travel from one galaxy to another? It seems like that would be an interesting concept to explore, and there are so many of them.
That reminds me: In Star Trek: Voyager, they initially figure it will take them 70 years or so to get across the galaxy at maximum warp, but is anyone aware of any science fiction that deals with travel from one galaxy to another? It seems like that would be an interesting concept to explore, and there are so many of them.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_142.html
It would be, but would require bending space time around to meet you, not traveling over it.
That reminds me: In Star Trek: Voyager, they initially figure it will take them 70 years or so to get across the galaxy at maximum warp, but is anyone aware of any science fiction that deals with travel from one galaxy to another? It seems like that would be an interesting concept to explore, and there are so many of them.
It sounds like a boring movie concept actually. All the explorers on the ship would be sitting around playing a game of monopoly that's been running for 87,436 years and they're only part way across the empty area.
I guess there could be some kind of interesting plot on how the crew handles paying up when there are 74,273,528 hotels on Boardwalk...owie.
And when they finally get to the Virgo Supercluster, all the aliens will be human shaped and speaking english.
I always thought a more "realistic" episode would go something like this:
Kirk - "So Spock, what do you want to do today?"
Spock - "I dunno. What do YOU want to do?"
Kirk - "I dunno. I thought you might have some ideas."
Chekov - "I have an idea!"
Kirk - "Shut up and drive. Jeez."
I have never heard the most common question in humanity on those shows, I guess in the future, they don't have lunch.
I always thought a more "realistic" episode would go something like this:
Not so!They apparently don't have bathrooms, either
Wow.
The Feds can't fund FAA properly, nor NASA, but DARPA still gets Florida boondoggles and $0.5M to toss at someone to study this.
I'm so glad the one kid has plans for a Japanese garden behind the research center though!
He shows great promise as a future waste of tax money. He'll go far.
This kind of stuff is actually OK, it's really more of seed money to get people thinking than a sponsored program. The answer to the study though with present knowledge of physics and engineering is "Unfeasible". The costs and time involved for the minimal benefit received.... I bet it's more of a study in "What will it take to sustain populations off the planet?" which even through extensive experiments, we haven't managed to quite answer.
Possibly or the speed of light may be faster in some areas so you could cover a distance in a shorter period of time.It would be, but would require bending space time around to meet you, not traveling over it.
That just goes to show you how bloated the DoD budget really is.Wow.
The Feds can't fund FAA properly, nor NASA, but DARPA still gets Florida boondoggles and $0.5M to toss at someone to study this.
I'm so glad the one kid has plans for a Japanese garden behind the research center though!
He shows great promise as a future waste of tax money. He'll go far.