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  • 12-09-2017 8:21pm
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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    Make a really really powerful telescope that can travel really really fast.

    Send it 183 lightyears (taking about 6 days interstellar travel) into space, look back on Earth and find out if Jonathan the "183 year old" tortoise is telling the truth.

    What would you do if we had such abilities to view the past...bearing in mind viewing the past would be in GTA overhead camera style until such a time where viewing would be like the magic 3d Google maps God mode.


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    tomwaterford
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    Would everything be in black and white though?


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    #3
    s4uv3
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    Work away there mars bar. There's probably a grant for it an all.


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    ToddyDoody
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    That aside, we still have reeling in the years, and the tv3 knock off that wasn't as popular.


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    McMurphy
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    A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Make a really really powerful telescope that can travel really really fast.

    Send it 183 lightyears (taking about 6 days interstellar travel) into space, look back on Earth and find out if Jonathan the "183 year old" tortoise is telling the truth.

    What would you do if we had such abilities to view the past...bearing in mind viewing the past would be in GTA overhead camera style until such a time where viewing would be like the magic 3d Google maps God mode.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBHMAg4xzY


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    LordSutch
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    A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Make a really really powerful telescope that can travel really really fast.

    Send it 183 lightyears (taking about 6 days interstellar travel) into space, look back on Earth and find out if Jonathan the "183 year old" tortoise is telling the truth.

    What would you do if we had such abilities to view the past...bearing in mind viewing the past would be in GTA overhead camera style until such a time where viewing would be like the magic 3d Google maps God mode.

    What type of propulsion system would you suggest to propel the telescope 183 light years out into space?


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    What propulsion system would you suggest for the telescope?

    Sonic power propulsion with a bit of boost


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    murphthesmurf
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    I'm gutted I never thought of this.


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    Fuzzytrooper
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    What type of propulsion system would you suggest to propel the telescope 183 light years out into space?

    The power of wub?


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    murphthesmurf
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    We could point it at the moon and wait to see if anyone really does land on it.


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    Ipso
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    murphthesmurf wrote: »
    We could point it at the moon and wait to see if anyone really does land on it.

    Or you could see these.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retroreflectors_on_the_Moon


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    Your Face
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    That's an impressive amount of nonsense in one post.


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    Barry Badrinath
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    Your Face wrote: »
    That's an impressive amount of nonsense in one post.

    Careful now, he might be Dislexic.


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    murphthesmurf
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    I'd like to send it out around 30 years so I can watch 'Manimal' tv series again. The ba5t3rds took it off and said they wont be showing it again pffft


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    The_Valeyard
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    We are not wasting money on that.


    We are going to build a giant space laser and shoot it at random planets.


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    Archeron
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    What type of propulsion system would you suggest to propel the telescope 183 light years out into space?

    Red bull and turf


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    Noveight
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    The cost of taxing and insuring that yoke? God forbid you'd meet a checkpoint in it. Jaysus.


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    coffee_cake
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    The Light of Other Days is a good novel on the subject

    About viewing the past anyway. I am not clear on how you're getting a telescope 183 light years away in <= 183 years


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    LordSutch
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    murphthesmurf wrote: »
    I'd like to send it out around 30 years so I can watch 'Manimal' tv series again. The ba5t3rds took it off and said they wont be showing it again pffft

    Better still, send it out backwards in reverse gear (just below warp speed), then slingshot it around the sun anticlockwise and back to earth, just in time for a 'new' never before screened episode, with actors that haven't been born yet! Happy days.


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    Flippyfloppy
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    I'm not sure it's a good idea to put all your ideas on the internet for all to see 🀓


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    GhostyMcGhost
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    Flippyfloppy wrote: »
    I'm not sure it's a good idea to put all your ideas on the internet for all to see 🀓

    That's hardly his biggest issue here :)


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    The Light of Other Days is a good novel on the subject

    About viewing the past anyway. I am not clear on how you're getting a telescope 183 light years away in <= 183 years

    Teleportation


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    Pique
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    A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Make a really really powerful telescope that can travel really really fast.

    Send it 183 lightyears (taking about 6 days interstellar travel) into space, look back on Earth and find out if Jonathan the "183 year old" tortoise is telling the truth.

    What would you do if we had such abilities to view the past...bearing in mind viewing the past would be in GTA overhead camera style until such a time where viewing would be like the magic 3d Google maps God mode.
    183 light-years is 66,841 light-days. And you're saying 6 days of interstellar travel can get you that far.

    So you need to be travelling at 11,140 TIMES the speed of light.

    As nothing can equal, let alone exceed the speed of light we'd need Warp speed.
    But wait, there's a problem.
    According to this https://imgur.com/gallery/Su1RB even Star Trek Warp 9.99 is less than 8000 X light-speed.

    And that's if we had ****ing invented warp speed in the first place!!!


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    Pique wrote: »
    183 light-years is 66,841 light-days. And you're saying 6 days of interstellar travel can get you that far.

    So you need to be travelling at 11,140 TIMES the speed of light.

    As nothing can equal, let alone exceed the speed of light we'd need Warp speed.
    But wait, there's a problem.
    According to this https://imgur.com/gallery/Su1RB even Star Trek Warp 9.99 is less than 8000 X light-speed.

    And that's if we had ****ing invented warp speed in the first place!!!

    Sonic propulsion. Me and LordSutch have it all worked out so you don't need to worry about it.

    Or conversely just teleport. No speeds neccessary.


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    Pique
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    Well if chatting ****e out loud got people places, you'd be nearly there by now.


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    murphthesmurf
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    Pique wrote: »
    183 light-years is 66,841 light-days. And you're saying 6 days of interstellar travel can get you that far.

    So you need to be travelling at 11,140 TIMES the speed of light.

    As nothing can equal, let alone exceed the speed of light we'd need Warp speed.
    But wait, there's a problem.
    According to this https://imgur.com/gallery/Su1RB even Star Trek Warp 9.99 is less than 8000 X light-speed.

    And that's if we had ****ing invented warp speed in the first place!!!


    So much negativity. Where there's a will there's a way. If neccessary we could fit a time travel device to it, so if it takes longer it can jump back in time to just 6 days later. You need to think outside the box, free your mind.


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    Baron Kurtz
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    Pique wrote: »
    183 light-years is 66,841 light-days. And you're saying 6 days of interstellar travel can get you that far.

    So you need to be travelling at 11,140 TIMES the speed of light.

    As nothing can equal, let alone exceed the speed of light we'd need Warp speed.
    But wait, there's a problem.
    According to this https://imgur.com/gallery/Su1RB even Star Trek Warp 9.99 is less than 8000 X light-speed.

    And that's if we had ****ing invented warp speed in the first place!!!

    But like, theoretically...

    And could we head onto the future in any way at all?


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    murphthesmurf wrote: »
    So much negativity. Where there's a will there's a way. If neccessary we could fit a time travel device to it, so if it takes longer it can jump back in time to just 6 days later. You need to think outside the box, free your mind.

    Well if we go fitting time travelling devices to it...it would render my rudimentary telescope for viewing the past obsolete :p

    We could strap a radio thing to it with sticky tape and send lads radio signals when the radio gets invented. Tell them all about the future.

    Edit: oh no wait theyre dead :(


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    Pique wrote: »
    Well if chatting ****e out loud got people places, you'd be nearly there by now.

    Howabout this. If we get just one nautical knot faster than the speed of light.....happy? Put the telescope flying in reverse away from Earth...then we can watch time travel backwards indefinitely at a rate of one nautical knot a year. Make a TV channel out of it or a public art piece for a roundabout in Galway or something


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    Pique
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    A Battered Mars Bar wrote:
    Howabout this. If we get just one nautical knot faster than the speed of light.....happy?

    I'd be ecstatic. It would mean that we'd found a way around the cosmic speed limit.


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    A Battered Mars Bar
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    Pique wrote: »
    I'd be ecstatic. It would mean that we'd found a way around the cosmic speed limit.

    It's pretty easy. Just travel at the speed of light then stretch space itself like an elastic band and snap back. You've gone from one end to the other easy. Where's my cornflakes?


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