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Bauglir

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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2011, 09:15:26 pm »

In related news, I have just found the perfect hood ornament for my car.

That's a practical plan, yes? Never worry about traffic again.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2011, 09:16:20 pm »

In related news, I have just found the perfect hood ornament for my car.

That's a practical plan, yes? Never worry about traffic again.
You'd probably destroy time and space itself, but yes. It would help get people out of the way  :P

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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2011, 09:34:30 pm »

Bah, that's kiddy pool stuff. You want a real laser?

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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2011, 09:42:23 pm »

In related news, I have just found the perfect hood ornament for my car.

That's a practical plan, yes? Never worry about traffic again.
You'd probably destroy time and space itself, but yes. It would help get people out of the way  :P

Hey, destroying spacetime is better than sitting through rushhour traffic.


The idea is obviously to rip space-time so we can ask the future a question.
Specifically, that question will be how to close the horror rift.

Well what's the point of ripping a hole in the fabric of reality if you fix it before meeting any brainmelting cosmic horrors? Y'know, like Ayn Rand.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2011, 09:45:11 pm »

Well what's the point of ripping a hole in the fabric of reality if you fix it before meeting any brainmelting cosmic horrors? Y'know, like Ayn Rand.

We just have to shoot a few copies of Atlas shrugged through the hole, and they'll give up :P
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2011, 09:45:48 pm »

And then Scientists end up opening a portal to the underworld, and we will all serve our new dark overlord C'thulu.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2011, 09:48:33 pm »

Well what's the point of ripping a hole in the fabric of reality if you fix it before meeting any brainmelting cosmic horrors? Y'know, like Ayn Rand.

We just have to shoot a few copies of Atlas shrugged through the hole, and they'll give up :P
Somehow I don't think that driving the insane even more insane would help.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2011, 09:53:17 pm »

Well what's the point of ripping a hole in the fabric of reality if you fix it before meeting any brainmelting cosmic horrors? Y'know, like Ayn Rand.

We just have to shoot a few copies of Atlas shrugged through the hole, and they'll give up :P
Somehow I don't think that driving the insane even more insane would help.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2011, 09:55:50 pm »

Why would your example of how the laser works look exactly like the Death Star beam?  Who do you think you're fooling, science?  We've been here before, we know your tricks.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw Death Star in that. It's funny, I watched a show only two years ago claiming that making a laser work in that manner isn't possible. So much for that.

Well, at least we'll have a planet-killer when we inadvertently signal an alien species because of this thing's power output.

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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2011, 09:56:13 pm »

If you tear apart the vacuum of space, what's the vacuum equivalent inside a vacuum? One powerful sucker, I would suspect.

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Plus, since when did Earth now become a Death Star?
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2011, 09:57:36 pm »

If you tear apart the vacuum of space, what's the vacuum equivalent inside a vacuum? One powerful sucker, I would suspect.
I don't think you understand. There shouldn't be anything below the vacuum. That's the end. We will have truly ripped a hole into nothing. Which, for our sake, hopefully does not create a black hole or something equally horrible.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2011, 09:58:21 pm »

If you tear apart the vacuum of space, what's the vacuum equivalent inside a vacuum? One powerful sucker, I would suspect.
I don't think you understand. There shouldn't be anything below the vacuum. That's the end. We will have truly ripped a hole into nothing. Which, for our sake, hopefully does not create a black hole or something equally horrible.
It's already been done before anyway, just not on this fucking massive scale.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2011, 10:09:24 pm »

The real question is, is this laser going to be powerful enough? They might need to build 9 more of these and combine them into a single beam.

Another thought: If this laser is going to be that powerful, won't it melt itself when its fired? I thought one of the major physical limitations to the output of lasers was that they'd boil their mirrors away and not work. If not, could they retire the laser, put a big mirror into orbit and bounce it over the horizon to potentially melt hostile foreign people?

Along those lines... don't nuclear warheads generate temperatures similar to what this laser is designed to achieve? Do they just generate too much excess noise to detect these particles they hope to study?
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #28 on: November 02, 2011, 10:09:32 pm »

I prefer to think they'll start a resonance cascade.
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Re: Scientists have plans to tear apart the vacuum of space
« Reply #29 on: November 02, 2011, 10:12:09 pm »

The real question is, is this laser going to be powerful enough? They might need to build 9 more of these and combine them into a single beam.

Another thought: If this laser is going to be that powerful, won't it melt itself when its fired? I thought one of the major physical limitations to the output of lasers was that they'd boil their mirrors away and not work. If not, could they retire the laser, put a big mirror into orbit and bounce it over the horizon to potentially melt hostile foreign people?

Along those lines... don't nuclear warheads generate temperatures similar to what this laser is designed to achieve? Do they just generate too much excess noise to detect these particles they hope to study?
The idea is that a laser is much more focused than a warhead.

As for temperatures, that's why they're building prototypes :P
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