Mod Idea: Simulating surfaces -> Borg Technology -> Twinkie Physics -> Worldviews - Page 5

PvK · #41 December 6th, 2002, 05:19 AM

If Twinkies are fired at a wookie's surface, it will tend to make a sticky mess, but I'm not sure if troops are affected by the energy dampener effect, so there might be no way to mod it in the current game.

PvK

Kamog · #42 December 6th, 2002, 07:54 AM

The future looks bright for the Hostess company! The galaxy will soon be powered by Twinkie energy! Now is our chance to buy some Hostess stock and become billionaires!

And I'm going to the store right now to buy a crate full of Twinkies, I'm sure they're about to skyrocket in value! Yes! We're going to be rich...

mlmbd · #43 December 6th, 2002, 03:40 PM

We are All going to become Twinkie Billionaires! Oh, Yeah! I've got Highhhhhhhhhhh hope, yes I've got Highhhhhhhhhhh hope. I've got Twinkie in the sky hopes. Sorry, just got a little carried away!

mlmbd

Suicide Junkie · #44 December 6th, 2002, 04:43 PM

Alright. Take the Twinkies over to the cantina to scare away the health inspectors.

This thread is for Physics, Geometry and Topology!

QuarianRex · #45 December 6th, 2002, 07:44 PM

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Originally posted by PvK:

For example, if we hook up a drive capable of what would be ten times the speed of light to a Twinkie, and send it five light-years away and back (ten light-years total distance), we'll see it re-appear in ten years time, and history will not be changed, but the Twinkie will only have aged one year. No humpback whales will be saved.

PvK[/QB]

I have got to disagree here (I know I'm jumping in a little late but what the heck). If equiping a twinkie with a drive system capable of 10x the speed of light it would travel 10 light years in only one year of our subjective time.

This is assuming that said drive system is capable of instantaneous acceleration and deceleration and so negating the turnaround time at the half-way point.

The subjective effects of the twinkie are the true unknown. If they are the same as light speed then no time will have passed (subjectively) yet 10 lightyears will have been crossed and one year would have passed in the world.

This is the most likely explanation since we have detected forms of radiation that move faster than the speed of light (for the life of me I can't remember what it's called, though I do have it written down somewhere) and they don't show any evidence of time warping properties.

As a side note I recently heard that there is strong evidence to support the fact that C is not as constant as we once thought. Apparently the speed of light has been slowing down slightly over the Last several billion years.

Interesting huh?

Arkcon · #46 December 6th, 2002, 08:44 PM

Sorry guys, but I had to do this.

web page link

If you would, please fill in the gaps.

Suicide Junkie · #47 December 6th, 2002, 10:27 PM

You shoulda spelled it "light speed" instead of "Light speed".

The Wiki is case sensitive, and the odd capital makes it hard to link to.

Other than that, the only problem is the galaxy squares are 10 not 1 LY across.

[ December 06, 2002, 20:28: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Arkcon · #48 December 6th, 2002, 11:35 PM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
You shoulda spelled it "light speed" instead of "Light speed".

The Wiki is case sensitive, and the odd capital makes it hard to link to.

Other than that, the only problem is the galaxy squares are 10 not 1 LY across.

Thanks for fixing that SJ. It had been like that for sooooooo long.

How is it done? That's not easy to find in the Wiki help files.

When I wrote light speed, I did it buy clicking on a ?Light speed. I was new at Wiki then.

Can you fix Maintenance? That one just everywhere. I'm willing to search and fix the links to it -- it's a good way to browse Wiki.

If I had a girlfriend, she'd probably stab me in the back of the head right now.

It was just Last night I re-read the printed manual and found out about the 10 light year. I left it because I thought it could have been a typo. I don't open many warp points.

*[EDIT]*

Ohhh. Please fix [systemvsector bonus] as well. I didn't even know that entry was there, I was going to write one.

[ December 06, 2002, 21:45: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

President_Elect_Shang · #49 December 7th, 2002, 03:01 AM

You know I may sound like a hostess pie here but I need to point this out. Are we ASSUMING that we can get said twinkie to near light speed or beyond without the acceleration making the twinkie into a fruit pie on the ships bulkhead? If you are speaking about a gradual acceleration to light speed (or some point there of) than we need to consider what is happening to the twinkie and the outside world during this acceleration period. Then we can consider what happens when reaching the optimal cruising speed.

Yes they [Princeton and a school in Italy] have managed to accelerat �energy packets� to what is effectively beyond light speed. Follow the link, you will need to search around some but only because there is so much info. You still can't move something solid that fast.

http://pupgg.princeton.edu/www/jh/re...e_theory.htmlx

dogscoff · #50 December 7th, 2002, 07:49 PM

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As a side note I recently heard that there is strong evidence to support the fact that C is not as constant as we once thought. Apparently the speed of light has been slowing down slightly over the Last several billion years.

Where did you read this? I only ask because a "C slowing down" theory has been put forward as an argument for creationism. I don't know if that was something made up for that purpose or something they had borrowed from real science. I don't suppose I'd ever find the webpage again, but I read a really funny argument about this theory between a creationist and someone who actually understood science.