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Title: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 22, 2016, 11:02:03 pm
Well Elon Musk is going to make big Announcement on 9/27/16 2:30 PM EDT.


It can be viewed here: http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/making-humans-multiplanetary-species.html (http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/making-humans-multiplanetary-species.html)
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 22, 2016, 11:09:00 pm
If I were a billionaire who built a starship, I think I'd try to keep it a secret for a while.

Maybe a good plot for a story of some sort.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 22, 2016, 11:12:11 pm
If I were a billionaire who built a starship, I think I'd try to keep it a secret for a while.

Maybe a good plot for a story of some sort.


Not a bad idea.. However, it is kinda hard to hide a starship..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 22, 2016, 11:15:36 pm

Not a bad idea.. However, it is kinda hard to hide a starship..

If it were "small" enough maybe. Heck, Luke Skywalker went interstellar in an X-wing fighter! ;p

Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Cripplecreek on September 22, 2016, 11:18:26 pm

Not a bad idea.. However, it is kinda hard to hide a starship..

Thomas Newton had to buy silence and even that was breached in the end.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 22, 2016, 11:23:02 pm
Thomas Newton had to buy silence and even that was breached in the end.

even if you hire an army of assassins, sooner or later those assassins will need to be eliminated....
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 22, 2016, 11:35:21 pm
Note to self: Find a way to travel back in time (22 years) and tell myself to invest in Microsoft, Apple, and Google..  Also, if SpaceX is going public I'm investing.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 22, 2016, 11:37:19 pm
Note to self: Find a way to travel back in time (22 years) and tell myself to invest in Microsoft, Apple, and Google..  Also, if SpaceX is going public I'm investing.

I have had that dream.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 22, 2016, 11:40:18 pm
I have had that dream.


I think we all did.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Oceander on September 23, 2016, 12:02:49 pm

Not a bad idea.. However, it is kinda hard to hide a starship..

Depends on whom you ask!  According to certain conspiracy theorists, the gov't has been hiding a whole fleet over at Area 51.  :smokin:
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Gefn on September 23, 2016, 12:44:23 pm
Depends on whom you ask!  According to certain conspiracy theorists, the gov't has been hiding a whole fleet over at Area 51.  :smokin:

Or ask Captain Picard how to hide a star ship.  :)
(I'm being silly. It's Friday.)
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Oceander on September 24, 2016, 06:04:55 am
Or ask Captain Picard how to hide a star ship.  :)
(I'm being silly. It's Friday.)

Three cheers (and lots of beers) to being silly!!!  :beer:
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Gefn on September 24, 2016, 08:47:20 am
Three cheers (and lots of beers) to being silly!!!  :beer:

Thank you @Oceander

Beers all around! Let's hope that life on other planets has beer!  :beer: (or spirits. Whiskey, Brandy, etc)
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 24, 2016, 11:24:34 pm
Thank you @Oceander

Beers all around! Let's hope that life on other planets has beer!  :beer: (or spirits. Whiskey, Brandy, etc)


Well in Star Trek, the most famous spirits are Romulan Ale, Saurian Brandy, and Andorian Ale. So we shall see what kind of adult beverages the aliens has, provided they are friendly.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Gefn on September 25, 2016, 10:29:50 am

Well in Star Trek, the most famous spirits are Romulan Ale, Saurian Brandy, and Andorian Ale. So we shall see what kind of adult beverages the aliens has, provided they are friendly.

As long as Whoopi Goldberg isn't a barmaid. Do you think *she's* an alien?  :silly:
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 25, 2016, 12:03:24 pm
As long as Whoopi Goldberg isn't a barmaid. Do you think *she's* an alien?  :silly:


I think so..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Oceander on September 25, 2016, 02:28:00 pm
As long as Whoopi Goldberg isn't a barmaid. Do you think *she's* an alien?  :silly:

She's beyond alien
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Gefn on September 25, 2016, 04:09:27 pm
She's beyond alien

 :mauslaff:
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 25, 2016, 07:36:38 pm
Okay, deeper story idea

A scienstist has developed the technology to make a starship real in secret. He buys a decommissioned submarine as "scrap" but instead of scrapping it, he reconditions it and installs his technologies while gathering a skeleton crew necessary to operate the proto-type vessel.

hide a starship.... in a relatively isolated shipyard...

maybe... maybe not....
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 25, 2016, 07:42:00 pm
Okay, deeper story idea

A scienstist has developed the technology to make a starship real in secret. He buys a decommissioned submarine as "scrap" but instead of scrapping it, he reconditions it and installs his technologies while gathering a skeleton crew necessary to operate the proto-type vessel.

hide a starship.... in a relatively isolated shipyard...

maybe... maybe not....


That sounds like a good story..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 25, 2016, 08:05:56 pm

That sounds like a good story..

Now it needs a "then what"... lol
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Oceander on September 26, 2016, 01:25:12 am
Okay, deeper story idea

A scienstist has developed the technology to make a starship real in secret. He buys a decommissioned submarine as "scrap" but instead of scrapping it, he reconditions it and installs his technologies while gathering a skeleton crew necessary to operate the proto-type vessel.

hide a starship.... in a relatively isolated shipyard...

maybe... maybe not....

Sounds like that old 1980s TV show about the guy who builds a homemade rocket to salvage Apollo junk from the moon:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: Joe Wooten on September 26, 2016, 05:32:54 pm
Okay, deeper story idea

A scienstist has developed the technology to make a starship real in secret. He buys a decommissioned submarine as "scrap" but instead of scrapping it, he reconditions it and installs his technologies while gathering a skeleton crew necessary to operate the proto-type vessel.

hide a starship.... in a relatively isolated shipyard...

maybe... maybe not....

John Ringo beat you to the punch several years ago with his novel "Vorpal Blade"
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: geronl on September 26, 2016, 06:07:16 pm
Sounds like that old 1980s TV show about the guy who builds a homemade rocket to salvage Apollo junk from the moon:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1

lol

I guess I can do a sit-com set in space. lol
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on September 26, 2016, 06:13:23 pm
John Ringo beat you to the punch several years ago with his novel "Vorpal Blade"

I am actually listening to that novel at the moment (literally).
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 11:35:15 am
You can view the announcement at the following link: http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/making-humans-multiplanetary-species.html
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 06:31:58 pm
Starting soon..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 06:39:11 pm
The music intro..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 06:44:50 pm
Space Elevator Music...
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 06:55:32 pm
Still waiting.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 06:59:16 pm
Finally live..
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 07:05:24 pm
Here is the transit vehicle: http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/spacex-interplanetary-transport-system.html
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 07:12:18 pm

@nycjim  1m1 minute ago
Elon Musk is talking about people taking a trip to Mars for the cost of a home in the U.S. Live: http://www.spacex.com/mars
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 07:13:26 pm

@betz4444  1m1 minute ago
The timing of Elon Musk's discussion of colonizing Mars the day after the #PresidentialDebate is a beautiful thing.  A tremendous thing.
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: kevindavis007 on September 27, 2016, 07:22:57 pm

@k_samwell  1m1 minute ago
Right now Mars is the only known planet completely inhabited by robots. Elon Musk talks about terraforming,...
Title: Re: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species -- Announcement 09/27/16 2:30 PM EDT Live Thread
Post by: Oceander on September 27, 2016, 10:54:14 pm
Space Elevator Music...

Sounds like a whole new genre!