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| ImperialSnob |
 Jun 28 2013, 04:54 PM
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 28 2013, 11:43 AM)  What is your opinion on Skyrim, ImpSnob? I like it but it's my least favourite of the 3 newer TES games even though I think I have the most time in Skyrim but that's because it has the best mods. QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 04:51 PM) I've decided to take the family out on a trip to the moon, therefore, which launch vehicle should I use to travel there in?... A Galaxy Dropship. |
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| McBadgere |
Jun 28 2013, 04:58 PM
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Or NASA's Saturn V rocket which sent the Apollo landers...
I wish to visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, just for the hell of it...If I travelled at the speed of light - all 186,282 miles per second of it - how long would it take me to get there and back?... |
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| mirocu |
Jun 28 2013, 05:01 PM
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QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 05:58 PM) I wish to visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, just for the hell of it...If I travelled at the speed of light - all 186,282 miles per second of it - how long would it take me to get there and back?... Approximately 16 minutes - eight to get there and eight to get back again. Sorry Impsnob for taking that question  -------------------- Lol bird
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. |
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| McBadgere |
Jun 28 2013, 05:16 PM
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Councilor Joined: 21-October 11 |
Not quite...Slightly more than that...
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| mirocu |
Jun 28 2013, 05:18 PM
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QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 06:16 PM) Not quite...Slightly more than that... Oh, wait! You didnīt mean our sun *facepalm* Sorry, McB. I can see why you fired me as your minion  But you did say "nearest star" which is our sun!  This post has been edited by mirocu: Jun 28 2013, 05:18 PM -------------------- Lol bird
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. |
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| ImperialSnob |
Jun 28 2013, 05:28 PM
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 28 2013, 05:18 PM) QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 06:16 PM) Not quite...Slightly more than that... Oh, wait! You didnīt mean our sun *facepalm* Sorry, McB. I can see why you fired me as your minion But you did say "nearest star" which is our sun! The sun is A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG way away. Alpha Centuri is the nearest star. |
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| mirocu |
Jun 28 2013, 05:31 PM
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QUOTE(ImperialSnob @ Jun 28 2013, 06:28 PM) The sun is A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG way away. Alpha Centuri is the nearest star. Our sun is a star, you know We just call it the sun.-------------------- Lol bird
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. |
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| ImperialSnob |
Jun 28 2013, 05:32 PM
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 28 2013, 05:31 PM) QUOTE(ImperialSnob @ Jun 28 2013, 06:28 PM) The sun is A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG way away. Alpha Centuri is the nearest star. Our sun is a star, you know We just call it the sun.Yes,it's a star. A very far away star. A very veryveryveryveryvvveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryve ryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery far away star. |
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| mALX |
Jun 28 2013, 05:57 PM
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QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 11:58 AM) Or NASA's Saturn V rocket which sent the Apollo landers... I wish to visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, just for the hell of it...If I travelled at the speed of light - all 186,282 miles per second of it - how long would it take me to get there and back?... 8 hours round trip. -------------------- |
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| King Coin |
Jun 28 2013, 06:21 PM
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QUOTE(mALX @ Jun 28 2013, 11:57 AM) 8 hours round trip. The distance is measured in light years. Farther than that mALX! -------------------- |
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| mALX |
Jun 28 2013, 06:26 PM
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Ancient Joined: 14-March 10 From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN |
QUOTE(King Coin @ Jun 28 2013, 01:21 PM) QUOTE(mALX @ Jun 28 2013, 11:57 AM) 8 hours round trip. The distance is measured in light years. Farther than that mALX! Warp speed ahead! MERRRRRROOOOWWWWWW *ping* Ah, 8 hours. Right on schedule! -------------------- |
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| ghastley |
Jun 28 2013, 08:17 PM
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Actually it's a trick question. At the speed of light, you would experience no time lapse at all, but everyone back at home would think it took 9 years(ish). Since you have to slow down, stop and turn round, that's the only time you'd experience time, and the question didn't give any clues about that part.
So if 8 hours for reversing is reasonable, mALX could be right (subjectively). -------------------- |
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| King Coin |
Jun 28 2013, 08:23 PM
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Care to provide a source? I'd like to read about this.
And kudos to mALX! This post has been edited by King Coin: Jun 28 2013, 08:24 PM -------------------- |
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| Kiln |
Jun 28 2013, 08:33 PM
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Forum Bard  Joined: 22-June 05 From: Balmora, Eight Plates |
You guys have never met my wife. She could get there and back in two hours as long as there was no shopping available. If you factor in the time it takes for her to shop then it'll take approximately 9 hours.
-------------------- He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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| ghastley |
Jun 28 2013, 08:44 PM
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QUOTE(King Coin @ Jun 28 2013, 03:23 PM) Care to provide a source? I'd like to read about this. And kudos to mALX! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation (with pictures and nasty maths) Of course, the speed of light can't be reached, so time stopping at that speed is a limit value. -------------------- |
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| mALX |
Jun 28 2013, 08:52 PM
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Ancient Joined: 14-March 10 From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN |
QUOTE(King Coin @ Jun 28 2013, 03:23 PM) Care to provide a source? I'd like to read about this. And kudos to mALX! Hasn't Acadian told you I'm always right yet? Lol. -------------------- |
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| McBadgere |
Jun 28 2013, 09:47 PM
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A bazillion points to everyone!!...
Ex-Minion, yes the sun is indeedie our nearest star...Named Sol by scientists as it happens...Oddly enough, it's Latin for sun...But anyways...Yes, well done that man and his maths... Impy!!...Yes, the sun is a long long way away...93 million miles, give or take a few...And well done for knowing that the Alpha Centauri star system to ours...Made up of three stars...Named, boringly enough, A, B and C...C is also called Proxima Centauri which is the nearest star to ours... Everyone else, but most espescially Ghastley...Nice one!!... Yes, Ghastley's right about all the nasty maths and time dilation effects etc and yes, I meant subjective time from Earth of my travelling 4.24 light-years there and back (as a straight round trip) would be about 9 hours... Though I do take issue with the scientists who insist on this quantum effect thing...A light particle still has to travel the distance the 4.24 light-years actually is, and therefore, you, as an observer on a craft travelling at said speed would be aware of time passing...Stands to reason...But they're the clever ones with letters and stuff around their name and I milk cows, so - as a wise man once observed - I know my place...  ...Aaamywho... Hi! I'm Sam Beckett, lead character in TVs old show, Quantum Leap...Where each week, by way of Super Science™ and Plot Contrivance™, my soul essence would possess the body of some unsuspecting person in any year that my character had been alive and "Help them" in some way...Be it protecting Jackie Onassis or helping Buddy Holly with the lyrics to Peggy Sue... Help! Something has gone wrong with the machine and I seem to have been transported to England in the 1500s...I seem to be inside a ginger fat dude with a penchant for offing his wives... Who am I?... |
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| Kazaera |
Jun 28 2013, 09:56 PM
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I'm Henry the Eighth ♫ I am ♫ I am...
...which is pretty much the only thing I know about past British monarchs.  -------------------- |
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| mALX |
Jun 28 2013, 10:34 PM
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Ancient Joined: 14-March 10 From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN |
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Jun 28 2013, 04:47 PM) Help! Something has gone wrong with the machine and I seem to have been transported to England in the 1500s...I seem to be inside a ginger fat dude with a penchant for offing his wives... Who am I?...  They're not really gone, just look underneath him... This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 28 2013, 10:59 PM -------------------- |
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| Black Hand |
Jun 28 2013, 10:52 PM
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