Halo

Looking for new friends

hi

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Mix'em up. If you have her as a wife, i'd think work would be a distraction from more jlaw.

@Vilageidiotx

I'd only appreciate my time with her all the more that way :3

oh god shoot me I'm turning back into a romantic

Welp...

I'm so happy for him. :') I usually don't give a flying fuck about these things but c'mon. It's Leo. His lack of an Oscar was a meme by itself. He deserved it for Wolf of Wall Street imo.

Slowboatting to Alpha Centuari

Here's a sort-of-realistic answer:

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@gorgenmast

Uh... nah.

I like the thinking here - it's creative - but to imply it's even vaguely realistic or feasible with our technology is somewhat misleading... at least the way you were talking about it. What you're describing is an Orion Rocket and was originally conceived in the late '50s. Upper estimates for the speeds attainable using this type of method (nuclear pulse propulsion) range from 5% the speed of light (if retaining fuel for deceleration at the destination) to 10% (if not.) Reaching 35% the speed of light using this method just flat out isn't possible - especially with a manned spacecraft due to the limitations introduced by the human body's capacity for enduring rapid acceleration. Sure things like the Oberth effect might help a wee bit - but consider that the current record speed for a spacecraft is 0.000234 times the speed of light (set by Helios 2) and you'll realise that it just isn't going to have any sort of actual impact when we're on the interstellar scale.

Now - I don't disagree that were one to have a fully built Orion Rocket in space that it could work extremely well for the purposes of interstellar travel... but one must consider how you actually construct the rocket and get it to space in the first place:
1. Dyson calculated that it would require a nuclear detonation every three seconds during acceleration to attain the cruising speed. This would require 300000 nukes to be aboard. Dumping waste and fecal matter ain't gonna change shit about the metrics of this thing dude. It'd be scary huge. *
2. Using chemical rockets (current method) to get the rocket to space is inefficient as fuck - and we can't use the rocket itself to get out of orbit because of the International Test Ban Treaty of '63.
3. The cost. Oh jesus the cost of construction. The size and weight of this thing would be colossal and even obtaining enough materials would be challenging (where do you expect to find enough nuclear material to make 300000 nukes?)

* Side-note: that's actually one of the benefits of the Orion design. You can just make the ship fuck-off massive and have a crew of like 200 because it has to be so big anyway. You don't have to be totally anal about losing every tiny bit of weight like they do now with chemically propelled rockets.

Anyway I've ranted enough. It's a super cool idea and could definitely be feasible in future - but right now it simply isn't. Personally my favourite theory for interstellar travel is either the usage of a solar sail or - of course - using matter-antimatter explosions instead of nuclear ones. This is a really really good article discussing potential methods of interstellar travel. Check it out. :D

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Come one now man, you can have anything you want! Like, even simplicity can be improved. Like "Earn enough money without working so I can spend my time enjoying life with my family." or "Have a comfortable family life with Jennifer Lawrence."

Dream big, brother!

@Vilageidiotx

the latter one sounds pretty good actually
the jlaw thing
I'll take that one

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How about extra money for train tickets?

@Awson

I dunno - Newcastle city centre was pretty nice.

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Honestly I'm pretty content right now so whatever I chose to do would have to be for the future. I'd want to both enjoy my job and earn enough money doing it to live comfortably and provide my kids opportunities to do what they want/need to do. So that - that's what I'd do. If I could do anything I'd ace my degree and be able to choose to do whatever job I want.

Slowboatting to Alpha Centuari

Officially name my house "Alpha Centauri".

Invite ten astronauts to a tea party.

Kidnap them when they refuse.

Sorted.

A pronunciation question for those of you who live in the UK

"Bo" (as in "boat") - tocks (rhymes with clock.) Never heard it pronounced otherwise in any of the many places I've lived or visited here. Still a chance some people say it otherwise but I'd certainly go with the first pronunciation you mentioned.

have you ever played plub cenguin?

Neopets... AdventureQuest... Runescape... Club Penguin... the nostalgia is fucking real. Those four are how I got into online gaming. :')

I get to sleep rough today

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How often do people get slapped with the full 2k?

@Awson

Probably pretty rarely, but they could also have chucked me off the train in the middle of nowhere. Being able to buy the right ticket it just about the most positive outcome that could have come of being caught.

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That isn't too impressive though, is it? I mean, your country is itty bitty.

@Vilageidiotx

That's sort of my point, yes. We're a tiny country so we can have shitty trains and it doesn't make that much difference to one's ability to travel around.