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6 jabs per round in a boxing match... Edit: He probably made $20,000 per jab, so maybe he was just trying to optimize?

I want Woodley to blast double Paul through the ropes.

Obvious problems on launch, wild recovery, then termination.

If there's one place where Musk is unimpeachable, it's dreaming big. He's on record saying that all his endeavors are focused on addressing the biggest problems humanity has: climate (Tesla), education/economy (improve global connectivity with StarLink), and species-level environmental...

IMO if we colonize etra-solar it's going to be having created AI/digital people or with biological 3d printers and DNA blueprints. I just don't see how the incentives line up to make it worthwhile to ship around thousands of fragile human bodies for centuries at a time.

Yeah, you're right. Don't do amateur physics on multiple beers, kids!

Edit: Derp, disregard. Different point. I'm saying that a chemical rocket (or anything with a finite impulse) can't accelerate you indefinitely. When your speed reaches the exhaust velocity of your propellant you can't go any faster, and you will approach this speed asymptotically. This has...

The different frames of reference experience very different things, yes, but you'll still never be passing photons. Plus when you stop you're left with an enormous reconciliation between your perceived time and observers at relative rest during your trip, which greatly warps the concept of speed.

If it's anything it will be laser thrusters, but that comes with needing major revolutions in the weight required to generate the necessary huge amounts of energy. Erm. Relatively pretty strongly disagrees with you, otherwise c wouldn't be a constant. Within the limits of non-speculative...

It's a calculator, not an editorial. In fact, using their tool for free incurs hosting costs on them, so you should load it up right away.

Well yeah, that's why I was saying it wouldn't work.

I was thinking Enterprise/Star Destroyer/Galactica kind of "huge".

I don't think huge ships will ever be a thing, at least as we see them in current scifi. Space is really fucking big, and if you want to get anywhere within a century or two the energy required to accelerate large amounts of mass is prohibitive. Unless we upload our minds into computers or...

I'm not above shamelessly copying stuff. There are free world downloads you can find with damn near anything built better than I could, and then tools like Litematica that will allow you to build it relatively easily from an imported schematic as long as you have the right blocks. Personally, I...

*cough* drinking Not nearly as satisfying to bang your subordinates over Zoom. /s

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