yellowdingo
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Had an odd dream. Sitting on stairs outside a house, heard an odd noise, a kilometre long space ship passing overhead high enough so it only looks a few metres long. As it reaches overhead at about a hundred metres a second, there is a sonic boom and it vanishes into the distance at one hundred thousand metres a second (accelerating to one hundred thousand metres per second in a space of a hundred metres). An incredible wind washes after it.
yellowdingo
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So how does this ship go from one place to another? It looked to be mostly turbine, lets say five hundred metres diameter. At the front is a silver nose, a cylinder with a rounded end so it must cope with the geeforces by causing water to solidify near instantaneously in the tube behind the pilot by absorbing all the acceleration. Any water that doesnt solidify escapes the cylinder shaft into the turbine driving it in atmosphere. So there must be an initial acceleration to feed this. Lets call it a matter-anti matter pulse to give it that first bang. The hull casing the turbine has an annoying yellow style paint job. It has a tapered exhaust at the rear and wings extending left and right from that exhaust with pods on the ends.
So rather than rockets in outer space it jumps from inside our planetary atmosphere to one hundred thousand metres per second with turbine and a pulse start. Is that a viable or even sensible means of travel?
| Ambrosia Slaad |
Wait, are you dreaming about sebaceous cysts or Sebacean ships?
Scorpios seeks singularity secrets while the Scarran Staleek seeks more.
yellowdingo
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Wait, are you dreaming about sebaceous cysts or Sebacean ships?
Scorpios seeks singularity secrets while the Scarran Staleek seeks more.
Nah, I just dream of space ships...the physical decline post fourty I get to enjoy when awake.
| Threeshades |
I had a dream wth spaceships once. They belonged to aliens who if you would look up at the sky would send down signals that would either prompt a piece of technology in your vicinity to murder you or drive you insane and make you go on a murder spree. Optionally, if you were especially unlucky it would also peel your skin off. Or perhaps make you peel your own skin off. Not sure, I just saw the victims of that particular version. I got crushed by a steamroller myself. Turns out it was enough to just look above the horizon.
yellowdingo
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Here. We went to see the movie on Saturday, and there was way too much backstory and POV that a screenplay couldn't express, so I thought I'd read the book. Now I know which aliens really disturb me. YD, no offense or anything, but you aren't really all that disturbing in comparison.
So I should put you in a machine, pump you full of drugs and record your brainpattern changes for economic purposes of selling halucinations to kids on streetcorners.
"hey kid...wanna buy some SnowJade dreaming?"
| Eric the Kitten-Bee |
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In the grim darkness of the far future, 4 out of 5 dentists recommend spaceship jump drives powered by Anti-Gravity Catoast™.
Anti-Gravity Catoast™ is fully compliant with the Grand Unified Yarn Theory and current builds of the Universe back to Universe XP. All warranties void if Anti-Gravity Catoast™ is brought within half-a-parsec of the entity currently known as Sandra Bullock (warning: spoilers). Use of butter substitutes with Anti-Gravity Catoast™ my spontaneously and expectantly spawn Goose-to-the-Face waveforms. Use of Anti-Gravity Catoast™ with Goat Simulator has not been tested. Do not taunt Anti-Gravity Catoast™.
| Haladir |
Haladir wrote:I dream of electric sheep. Does that mean I'm an android?11100101011?
One humanoid escapee / One android on the run / Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun...