Crying About Cave Paintings At 7:51 Pm Is A Good Exercise That I Recommend

crying about cave paintings at 7:51 pm is a good exercise that i recommend

God I hope the future is kinder. I hope that they have it figured out better. I hope people don't have to work so much for so little. I hope there's time to explore passions and interests and skills. I hope people get the support they need. I hope the people from the future look back at our problems and are bewildered by them, like I'm confused by how they used to put poisonous lead in make-up, just... "how did they ever think that was okay? How did they live like that?" I hope the cruelties and hidden poisons of our world are one day so distant that they're used as fun facts in trivia games. Please be kinder, future

The key problem with this notion is that, unless you're using reactionless/"gravitic" thrust (a.k.a. Bullshit Space Magic), you need a lot of volume for propellant because there is no medium to push against in space. That's why human-carrying spacecraft are mostly propellant: it takes a LOT of reaction mass to get around up there.

Even with FTL handwavium and a high-efficiency fusion drive, you still need plenty of compressed gas for maneuvering and a fair bit of volume for reaction mass to get you and your vessel to match velocity with your target. Remember: EVERYTHING in space is moving, all the time. Our closest star, Alpha Centauri, is moving at almost 50 kilometers per second relative to our sun! Our second-closest star, Barnard, is moving more than TWICE that fast. Saturn V, one of the most powerful rockets ever built, had a total Δv of about 18 km/s, and half of that was expended just getting from the surface to low orbit.

Not to mention that, even if you ARE using handwavium FTL and "gravitic" reactionless thrust, you'd STILL need quite a bit of volume for fuel because that stuff would require an extremely large amount of energy.

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I saw in some sci-fi fiction that there are some small spaceships that just a single person can use. These things are slim and you are basically lying down because it's literally that tiny. The only thing is, I've only seen these used for travelling short distances (i.e. within view) / combat. I was wondering if I could use such a sleek and tiny design as a normal spaceship that can travel FTL. I'd say travelling 10 light years would take just a single minute. Exactly how advanced would tech like that need to be? In this way, a larger ship or crew isn't necessary if you have no cargo you can't carry on your person (helped by making use of shrink rays). Is there any example of a sci fi civilisation that you think could have such tech that can do that I could draw inspiration from or have an idea of what how advanced I'm trying to do?

Tex: A Doylist explanation for these might be that they are analogues to personal vehicles, so are limited by the writer’s and readers’ expectations of personal vehicles, such as the need to use chemical fuels in order to use them. FTL, as a general rule, relies more on momentum than it does acceleration - our current theoretical models mostly rely on the use of exotic particles to fuel suggestions such as the Alcubierre drive, Krasnikov tubes, etc (Wikipedia).

Ten light years in a minute is easily traversed under these conditions, particularly if the technology were perfected to the point of mass production. This seems to also function as your unit of measurement, so you would be able to use this for all technologies of the same type within your worldbuilding. Because of the nature of FTL drives, they would not be unreasonable large (think of how much we’ve scaled down modern computers!), and you could conceivably compare them to the gasoline engines that are currently in the majority of our modes of transportation today. There are many, many, many variations on the theme of spaceships, so I’ll list some of the major franchises that have percolated popular perception of this technology for comparison:

Star Trek, Category: Spacecraft classes

Star Trek, Category: Starship classes

Battlestar Galactica ships

Stargate Tau’ri fleet

Stargate, Category: Hive ships

Stargate, Category: Spaceships

Star Wars, Starship (Legends version)

Wootzel: For examples in media, you may want to check out the TV Tropes page on FTL in media, and maybe even the Analysis Page on the same (this one gets dense at first, but further down the page there are a lot of examples of “types” of FTL tech that other creators have used). 

If you want to have small ships that are capable of FTL, and you think it’ll serve your story or something about the theme of your world, then do so! Just pick and choose whatever rules and limitations you want in your world that suites you. You can pull inspiration from other works, or just think about what will work for you and make up your own conventions. Just note down what the tech requires and what limits it, and keep that consistent in your story so you don’t contradict yourself, but otherwise do whatever you’d like.

going fishing but instead of pulling anything up i reel myself into the ocean

Nine times that will come

1. There will come a time when Antarctica gets back its forests. They will be delivered by seabirds, seeded deep in ice-carved cracks and growing outwards, growing stranger, knitting themselves together with iceproof vines as the earth moves and the weather warms. By and by they will fill with things that were once penguins. When the time comes for the continent to return the favour to the rest of the world, it will do so with innumerable varieties of things that were once penguins.

2. There will come a time when that tide you were so worried about goes out and beneath it are only purple shells, all the way to the foggy horizon; that and pools darting with tiny fishes.

3. There will come a morning when the sun rises and rises and carries on rising and rising and rising until it is a pinprick in a dark sky; an exceedingly long morning, certainly long enough to run the thing through an orbital mechanics routine or two and get an idea of the level of bother the planet is in. But be sure some ridiculous action cock in a spacesuit will put us back somehow; this is the way of things.

4. Three time-like dimensions will walk into a bar; that is, from the point of view of our time-like dimension. The bar will be at the centre of the universe that has no centre and everyone will get a choice as to which direction they head off in, time-wise; those who choose to head off in dimensions other than the original appearing to the remaining patrons as if they have immovably frozen in place. For ever after (our ever after, at least) those people will be used as tables. In one of the other timelines this joke will have a punchline.

5. As was foretold in the 1950s, one day the deserts will bloom though atomic power. They will grow the great dry trees of the far future, and their blooms will crumble into dust at a touch; but there will be little there to touch them except bats and hurricanes, so they will usually last the whole Winter long. Plenty of time during the Summer’s dust for the roots to mine for uranium again.

6. Grass will grow over your cities, but no worry, no worry; from above they will seem like lumpy hills, and sheep will wander the bridges between building-tops, and office workers will share jokes about having to usher goats out from the window-cleaning platforms and through the building and back onto the slopes above. Up in the centre of the city where the skyscrapers are biggest they will be topped with ice, and mountain-birds will dangle dead rats at the windows of CEOs. One way to stay humble on the thousandth floor. And if not there is always to option to live above and just seal the canyons up. No worry, no worry.

7. There will come a time when nothing can be lost except to entropy the unimaginable thief. Or at least when all things that are lost will know where they are and in time they will be found, but maybe not by the person who lost them. And there will come a time too when the things that are lost gather together and join up their tiny brains and use them to make petty crimes.

8. That time too when there are no dolphins left only dolphin ghosts, roaming through the air in packs as they used to in the water. They are hard to see but there is a certain quality to the air when it is full of dolphin ghosts, a sort of clamminess, and you can hear their tiny chirrups like distant birds. Of course they too swim through the ghosts of every dead dinosaur, as do we all.

9. And finally that time when we will mistake snow for drifting ash and then for industrial foam and then for bleached bees and then for shredded paper and then for the degeneration of our eyes; but after all that, amazingly, unexpectedly, it will still be snow.

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