NASA says warp speed possible

Michael Barnes wrote: Not quite. Why don't we get Black Barney to tell us about the Canadian Space Program?

Damnit; that would have been a perfect close to my ranty second post (though, I believe that the Freakout Friday-appropriate term for our northern neighbors is "Frostbacks"). I'm ashamed to have missed that.

Since I know next to nothing about the Candian Space Agency, I decided to check out their website ( www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp ). Their webpage would lead one to believe that one of their top "priorities" is investigating the War of 1812. (I presume that "Priorities" box is some bit of national government-mandated messaging/branding design but it seems so out of place as to be jarring.)

Michael Barnes wrote: 3. That Barnes can't do any better than a shot across the the bow at Canada in a vain attempt to stir some freakout

There's no bow to shoot across. Canada has no spaceship.

BARNES FTW

ubarose wrote:
I lika da juice.

Even after he killed his wife and her lover? Even after he robbed some cats in Vegas? Naked Gun must've made a real fan out of you!

I really like how they put laces on space ship football. Maybe NASA is trying to get Bud Light or Miller Lite to sponsor the cool space ship football.

Ya know, if NASA was really interested in international communication, the football spaceship would be round.

Michael Barnes wrote: There's no bow to shoot across. Canada has no spaceship.

charlieturtle wrote: Even NASA still admits that Warp Drive is still in the speculation phase.

So 'speculation phase' just means 'watching Star Trek when you're trashed and making shit up'.

Anyway, couple of days ago my students were talking about manned Mars trips while I was poo pooing the idea for at least a couple of generations. Only reason NASA had moon landings in the first place, was due to the competition of the cold war and that was hugely expensive.

Personally, why the fuck aren't we exploring the 70% of this planet we know nothing about...the oceans? Shit, it would be a lot easier technologically speaking, to put cities on the ocean floor as opposed to colonising the moon. At least there is already fucking oxygen and water down there. OK pressure is super high but, one would have thought, an equivalent tech problem re zero pressure in space.Lack of meteorites and radiation ought to help as well.

Fuck, Andy! For a smart guy sometimes you say some stupid shit.

Look, why don't we have cities on the ocean floor?

Three words:

Giant Squids!

There are no Giant Squids in space!

Well better them than Predators, Aliens and those scary little martian fuckers with ray guns.

And the bastard Romulans ,Borg and Klingons come to that.

Squid can fuck right off, especially as I had some for dinner the other day.

ThirstyMan wrote:

charlieturtle wrote: Even NASA still admits that Warp Drive is still in the speculation phase.

So 'speculation phase' just means 'watching Star Trek when you're trashed and making shit up'.

Anyway, couple of days ago my students were talking about manned Mars trips while I was poo pooing the idea for at least a couple of generations. Only reason NASA had moon landings in the first place, was due to the competition of the cold war and that was hugely expensive.

It's two things, we want to show the world we still have the largest balls on the planet. We also do things like this to have an excuse to suck up the best scientists in a field so they aren't developing weapons for other countries.

ThirstyMan wrote: Personally, why the fuck aren't we exploring the 70% of this planet we know nothing about...the oceans? Shit, it would be a lot easier technologically speaking, to put cities on the ocean floor as opposed to colonising the moon. At least there is already fucking oxygen and water down there. OK pressure is super high but, one would have thought, an equivalent tech problem re zero pressure in space.Lack of meteorites and radiation ought to help as well.

We are exploring down there. New findings are occuring all the time. But unless James Cameron's name is attached it never gets any press.