The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: kevindavis007 on September 22, 2016, 11:02:03 pm
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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)
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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.
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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..
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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
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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I have had that dream.
I think we all did.
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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:
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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.)
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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:
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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)
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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.
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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:
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As long as Whoopi Goldberg isn't a barmaid. Do you think *she's* an alien? :silly:
I think so..
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As long as Whoopi Goldberg isn't a barmaid. Do you think *she's* an alien? :silly:
She's beyond alien
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She's beyond alien
:mauslaff:
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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....
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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..
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That sounds like a good story..
Now it needs a "then what"... lol
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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
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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"
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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
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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).
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You can view the announcement at the following link: http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/making-humans-multiplanetary-species.html
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Starting soon..
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The music intro..
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Space Elevator Music...
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Still waiting.
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Finally live..
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Here is the transit vehicle: http://www.isn-news.net/2016/09/spacex-interplanetary-transport-system.html
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@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
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@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.
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@k_samwell 1m1 minute ago
Right now Mars is the only known planet completely inhabited by robots. Elon Musk talks about terraforming,...
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Space Elevator Music...
Sounds like a whole new genre!