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Daniel Zima

Aktualizace překladu FTL: Faster Than Light 👇
Diakritika už nevypadá jak systémové štíty při prvním zásahu, překlepy vzaly za své a dokonce jsem si pohrál s grafikou, aby české texty vypadaly stejně dobře jako anglické. Takže teď můžete umírat ve vesmíru ještě čitelněji a esteticky příjemněji! labros.cz/preklady/ftl-faster-

www.labros.czČeštiny do her labros.cz - Faster Than LightHerní klient: EPIC · GOG · STEAM Verze hry: Aktuální
#videogames#retrogaming#ftl
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argv minus one

If we are to expand our civilization to other stars, we're going to need #FasterThanLight #FTL propulsion. And not just a little faster; a lot faster.

The alternative is decades of travel with zero chance of rescue if things go south, and no one in their right mind would sign up for that.

Generation ships are a non-starter.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

Small minds these Tech Bros, finding a way around the 0.2 second latency in HEO satellite internet.
They went for mega constellations at LEO, which as it would turn out, might fuck the Ozone layer when they inevitably burn up.

A true galaxy brain would just develop FTL communications like a badass. :catjam:
But no, these men went weak and flaccid.....their hustle has been exposed

#Starlink#TechBros#FTL
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Sally Strange

SCIENCE!

"[Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre] discovered that it was possible to build a warp drive through a clever manipulation of spacetime, arranging it so that space in front of a vessel gets scrunched up and the space behind the vessel stretched out. This generates motion without, strictly speaking, movement.

It sounds like a contradiction, but that’s just one of the many wonderful aspects of general relativity. Alcubierre’s warp drive avoids violations of the speed-of-light limit because it never moves through space; instead space itself is manipulated to, in essence, bring the spacecraft’s destination closer to it.

While tantalizing, Alcubierre’s design has a fatal flaw. To provide the necessary distortions of spacetime, the spacecraft must contain some form of exotic matter, typically regarded as matter with negative mass. Negative mass has some conceptual problems that seem to defy our understanding of physics, like the possibility that if you kick a ball that weighs negative 5 kilograms, it will go flying backwards, violating conservation of momentum."

A warp drive breakthrough? Maybe. A breakthrough in our understanding of gravity? Probably!

(Scientists don't understand gravity very well at all.)

#Science #WarpDrive #FTL #StarTrek #science #Physics

wired.com/story/warp-drive-bre

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@trekfan4747
Assuming we have General Relativity completely right and assuming that a meaningful understanding of dark energy and/or a quantum theory of gravity doesn't completely alter our perspective on the fundamental nature of space-time and assuming that humans don't burn, choke, drown and poison themselves back to the Stone Age over the next ten years, then yes; - could happen. :-)
#FTL #StarTrek #StarTrekvsReality #physics #cosmology
arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02709

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter

Why the Alcubierre warp drive makes a lousy FTL starship engine

arxiv.org/abs/1202.5708

arXiv.orgThe Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of MatterThe Alcubierre warp drive allows a spaceship to travel at an arbitrarily large global velocity by deforming the spacetime in a bubble around the spaceship. Little is known about the interactions between massive particles and the Alcubierre warp drive, or the effects of an accelerating or decelerating warp bubble. We examine geodesics representative of the paths of null and massive particles with a range of initial velocities from -c to c interacting with an Alcubierre warp bubble travelling at a range of globally subluminal and superluminal velocities on both constant and variable velocity paths. The key results for null particles match what would be expected of massive test particles as they approach +/- c. The increase in energy for massive and null particles is calculated in terms of v_s, the global ship velocity, and v_p, the initial velocity of the particle with respect to the rest frame of the origin/destination of the ship. Particles with positive v_p obtain extremely high energy and velocity and become "time locked" for the duration of their time in the bubble, experiencing very little proper time between entering and eventually leaving the bubble. When interacting with an accelerating bubble, any particles within the bubble at the time receive a velocity boost that increases or decreases the magnitude of their velocity if the particle is moving towards the front or rear of the bubble respectively. If the bubble is decelerating, the opposite effect is observed. Thus Eulerian matter is unaffected by bubble accelerations/decelerations. The magnitude of the velocity boosts scales with the magnitude of the bubble acceleration/deceleration.
#FTL#WarpDrive
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

Relativistic Kill Vehicles are terrifying things, you don't see them until it's too late due to the speed they travel at. But for #Worldbuilding purposes, if one of your 'rule breakers' is #FTL comms, could you have a network of satellites deep in your star system as an early warning system?
Then defeat the RKV by just throwing anything in it's way which it hits at 90% the speed of light. #SciFi

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David Emmett

Watching that Brian Cox talking about space and how looking further into space means looking further back in time, and it struck me that faster than light travel has a complication.

The faster you can go and the further you can travel, the less of a clue you have where you are going. Travel 4 light years and you should be fine. 4000ly is trickier. 400 million light years? Who knows what happened to the galaxy you were aiming at?

#space#FTL#SciFi
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