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Hypothetical: You have an FTL capable ship with provisions for 1 for 10 years

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Bateluer said:
You do have existing charts. Various Earth organizations, NASA, ESA, JAXA, etc, have all been compiling the locations of stars with planets. You have a general idea of whats out there, where the stars are, you just don't know specifics.
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For one thing those charts wouldn't be reliable since they are all drawn from Earths perspective. Not only that you have to navigate in 3 dimensional space without traffic signs, landmarks, etc to guide you. You don't just pick a star and fly in a straight line. If I transported you to India before man walked the Earth and told you to go to France and gave you a map, you'd probably take forever to find it... multiply that by hundred fold if not thousands.


edit: I'd rather not have gotten on the ship to begin with to avoid the death penalty. Even if I could find my way around space, I don't want to be stuck in the vastness of space alone for months at a time with nothing to keep me occupied.
 
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GhettoPeanut said:
are there any life inhabitable planets within a warp 5 factor?
i think what happens is:

You launch off, barely escaping the Feds, just to fly through space for 10 years. Eventually the fear of space in your giant metal coffin sets in and you go stark raving mad. If your lucky, you land on that amazon planet and get laid, but most likely, you suicide in 3 months from loneliness.
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How do you know that any life you find is humanoid, let alone has the same context of genders as we do, or that humans find attractive?

Anubis said:
BTW how fast is warp factor 5, for those of us that are normal
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I did say that you do have FTL communications available, so you can remain in contact with Earth. Haven't decided if, within the context of my narrative, Earth will have the ability to transmit or just receive. If I give them tech to transmit, then how does one work in extraterrestrials? Are they ignoring our transmissions, ala Prime Directive, because we're too primitive?

Either way, you can send personal communications, maps, charts, scientific data, etc, back to Earth based organizations.
 
Bateluer said:
How do you know that any life you find is humanoid, let alone has the same context of genders as we do, or that humans find attractive?
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Do they have a hole of some sort on their body? Or at least some kind of mucous or elastic membrane?

That will take care of 98% of horny fucks who have been trapped in a big metal tube.
 
darkxshade said:
For one thing those charts wouldn't be reliable since they are all drawn from Earths perspective. Not only that you have to navigate in 3 dimensional space without traffic signs, landmarks, etc to guide you. You don't just pick a star and fly in a straight line. If I transported you to India before man walked the Earth and told you to go to France and gave you a map, you'd probably take forever to find it... multiply that by hundred fold if not thousands.
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As the ship is a prototype, you'd also be making tweaks and modifications as you went, at the very least, it'd be something to keep you occupied. With regards to your question about India and France, I reckon a knowledgeable person with provisions and a compass could make their way to France and it'd be a trip to remember, if not easy.
 
TruePaige said:
Do they have a hole of some sort on their body? Or at least some kind of mucous or elastic membrane?

That will take care of 98% of horny fucks who have been trapped in a big metal tube.
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Maybe you should just take a bottle of lotion with you? Too many biological factors to consider here.

I guess I shouldn't be suprised as the number of people wanting to get laid by green Orion Slave girls, but honestly, that never entered my mind.

I don't think I'd go fully insane myself over ten years, but I'm pretty sure it'd take its toll on anyone's mental health.
 
darkxshade said:
For one thing those charts wouldn't be reliable since they are all drawn from Earths perspective. Not only that you have to navigate in 3 dimensional space without traffic signs, landmarks, etc to guide you. You don't just pick a star and fly in a straight line. If I transported you to India before man walked the Earth and told you to go to France and gave you a map, you'd probably take forever to find it... multiply that by hundred fold if not thousands.


edit: I'd rather not have gotten on the ship to begin with to avoid the death penalty. Even if I could find my way around space, I don't want to be stuck in the vastness of space alone for months at a time with nothing to keep me occupied.
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Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
 
Bateluer said:
As the ship is a prototype, you'd also be making tweaks and modifications as you went, at the very least, it'd be something to keep you occupied. With regards to your question about India and France, I reckon a knowledgeable person with provisions and a compass could make their way to France and it'd be a trip to remember, if not easy.
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Well you're asking hypothetically to people who for the most part are not knowledgeable with navigation in space. FFS, most of us can't even decide if we can turn right on red with/without stopping. 🙄
 
Anubis said:
Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
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What about a series of shorter 'hops' while you iron out any bugs in your navigation systems and build detailed charts?
 
darkxshade said:
Well you're asking hypothetically to people who for the most part are not knowledgeable with navigation in space. FFS, most of us can't even decide if we can turn right on red with/without stopping. 🙄
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True. Should have added that in the context of my narrative, the 'pilot' is knowledgeable with a high capacity for learning. Say they worked on the prototype and have a high level of knowledge about its systems, but they were NOT the prodigy who came up with the design. IE, they understand a lot, but the core systems are outside their range at the start of the trip.
 
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Make use of the slingshot effect to skip over a few hundred years and then go back to earth. With a high enough velocity you needn't find a black hole, you could just use any old star. Make sure that enough time has passed for humanity to have reinvented FTL drives so that when you come back you won't be riding in the most coveted ship in the solar system anymore. You might be able to make several short jumps and monitor radio transmission in between to be sure that you've allowed enough time to pass.
 
Probably invite a few lucky scientists aboard for the chance to study the universe in greater detail. Even if it cut the time I could explore, and even if I could only take 1 hot earth female scientist at a time.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
Why would you not GIVE the technology to all the governments? Are you giving up on humanity?
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In my original post, I specified that you fled because the Earth governments weren't interested in FTL propulsion but wanted to utilize the technology for WMDs, ie, very big bombs. Do you want to give all world governments access to warheads with yields hundreds of times larger than Tsar Bomba?


child of wonder said:
Return to Earth after 10 years to find 100 years have passed on Earth because of time dilation.
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No time dilation within this context, Star Trek-esque warp drive.
 
Bateluer said:
In my original post, I specified that you fled because the Earth governments weren't interested in FTL propulsion but wanted to utilize the technology for WMDs, ie, very big bombs. Do you want to give all world governments access to warheads with yields hundreds of times larger than Tsar Bomba?
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Yes because, how would that condition differ from the current mutually assured destruction?
 
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