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**Addled Platypus** · January 3, 2007, 03:10

If you believe in UFO's

you must have a theory on what technology got them here

my theory - future tech 25

**Aeson** · January 3, 2007, 03:49

Wouldn't Future Tech 25 only give the aliens (cumulative) +25 Health and Happiness in every city, and some points towards their score? I guess maybe if you figured out a way to use Happiness as a propulsion system it could work... (what tech is that?)

**DRoseDARs** · January 3, 2007, 03:53

Civ references aside

there have been some experiments were the speed of light was "cheated" in a way (speeding it up and slowing it down). Maybe in a thousand years we'll figure out how to make such things work for objects larger than a single atom and without destroying said object in the process (currently, the single atom is destroyed and an identical one sharing all properties of the original is created ... not terribly useful right now).

**Kuciwalker** · January 3, 2007, 03:56

there have been some experiments were the speed of light was "cheated" in a way (speeding it up and slowing it down)

No. At least not the way you're thinking. Sorry.

**Kuciwalker** · January 3, 2007, 03:58

Pick 2: relativity, causality, FTL

**DRoseDARs** · January 3, 2007, 03:59

Why do you think I put the quote marks around cheated, smartass?

**Kuciwalker** · January 3, 2007, 04:39

The things you were talking about have absolutely nothing to do with FTL and could never have anything to do with FTL. And quantum teleportation doesn't even allow FTL transmission of information, let alone mass.

**Tattila the Hun** · January 3, 2007, 04:51

Heim-Dröscher drive.

**Dis** · January 3, 2007, 05:17

so what happens if you hit a small rock at the speed of light?

I'm not expert, but I'd say the ship would be fubar'd.

But how much debris is there in outer space. Voyager is still going strong. Wonder if that thing ever hit anything. It would have been destroyed I would think. As that thing is going like 40,000 miles an hour (possibly faster- I have no idea).

edit: 38400 mph. I knew I was close. I remember reading that somewhere.

**Elok** · January 3, 2007, 05:23

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare
Does what no ordinary rabbit would dare...

And it was quite rude of us to name an airport after him and then not invite him.

**Chemical Ollie** · January 3, 2007, 07:12

"To fly seven million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

If it was unidentified, how did they know it had travelled 7 million light years?

**Lorizael** · January 3, 2007, 08:23

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie

"To fly seven million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

If it was unidentified, how did they know it had travelled 7 million light years?

Conspiracy!

**Tattila the Hun** · January 3, 2007, 10:52

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie

"To fly seven million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

If it was unidentified, how did they know it had travelled 7 million light years?

Educated quess? What's the closest star? Alpha Centauri? How long did it take to get there in Civ?

**Wycoff** · January 3, 2007, 10:54

Originally posted by Elok
Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare
Does what no ordinary rabbit would dare...

And it was quite rude of us to name an airport after him and then not invite him.

+10 for super obscure '90s reference. Nice work

**Solver** · January 3, 2007, 10:54

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun

Educated quess? What's the closest star? Alpha Centauri? How long did it take to get there in Civ?

20 turns

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