/sci/ - Science & Math

OP, you were born at exactly the right time. Longevity extension and all that fuzz.

Is it just me or does it feel like that ship is holding a very low orbit?
(Yes, I know, you shouldn't eye-ball things in space, but still)

>>3085344
That was the first thing that drew my eye. My second thought was that it must be a super-Earth with a thin atmosphere.

>>3085344
who said it was orbiting?

>>3085349

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalism are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

>>3085349
The screen above the observation window shows the orbital trajectory....but we digress.

>>3085360
>mfw I see American seaboard
That fucking observation deck can't be more than 20km up.

>>3085362
I really hope you can't see the American seaboard. I'm under the impression the picture is meant to be the EVE galaxy.

Artists gonna art, I guess.

>>3085367
Oh well.
However though OP's topic is inherently invalid, post moar awesome pics.

Why is there a room that big, with so much wasted space, on a starship? Why are there screens displaying information that cannot be read from that height? Is that an actual window, or just a viewscreen?

Oh wait, my mistake.

This shit is happening now!

>>3085373
Damn straight.

>>3085367
Look at the screen next to the one with the observation deck notice. That's Earth.

It might be space elevator

>>3085372

Its the future, we aint gotta explain shit.

>>3085384
A space elevator most likely wouldn't have an observation deck below 36,000km.

>>3085378
>>3085373

Where can I find more?

>>3085372
Why would starships have view-screens?
Wouldn't the crew see using broadcasts to their cyber-eyes?

>>3085392
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WuSP663uU
http://www.google.com.au/search?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:offici
al&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yyDVTf39HIiOuQO27tnhCw&ved=0CDgQvwUoAQ&q=city+lights+at+nigh
t+from+iss&spell=1&biw=1456&bih=955

>>3085393
Why are those solar arrays in fixed positions?

Really need floating cars

>>3085399
Really need teleporters.

Let's not forget the motherfucking Nile.

>>3085396
Mirrors may move, array does not.
Or internal reflection to cells at the sides of the sheets.

>>3085402
Really need a shit

>>3085402
Matter to energy transportation would be as safe as powering a starship with antimatter, or a car with nitroglycerine.

>>3085409
I can imagine sitting in a bar on Luna somewhere in 2150 and the ISS coming up, and the person opposite me saying 'They declared this spindly space hut the INTERNATIONAL space station?'

I don't know about you, but I'm in the one of the first generations to live forever.

But brain implants can't get here soon enough

>>3085417
Heat death

>>3085417
>go easy on your EBEs

>>3085419
AC's answer.

The world's greatest sci-fi series celebrates it's 50th year.

>>3085419

Oh hey dan the downer! Also
>implying we won't be so advanced by the time that happens we can avoid it

>>3085426
Insufficient data for meaningful answer

>>3085428
I damn fucking hope so.

People in 1000 years time are going to be making the same thread as this.
If you were born in the year 2700 you'd feel the same way you do now.

>>3085437
>If you were born in the year 2700 you'd feel the same way you do now.
That's why I'm fucking glad I'm born now.

When in history would I have liked to be born? Why, yesterday of course.

Trolling is just gonna get easier and easier in the future.

>if you weren't born before 2100 you don't know shit about immortality

>>3085440
All civilizations become spacefaring or extinct.

>>3085452
HAHAHA oh wow.

>by entering this site you agree that you are 100 years or older.

>>3085453

Prove it.

>>3085458

>>3085411
Flying cars would be about as safe as having missiles zipping around you 24/7. Oh wait...

>>3085460
The images from Apollo missions practically started the modern environmental movement.

>>3085453
Must people go into space or just their machines?

>>3085466
The AI machines become spacefaring
The creators become extinct

In the next 40 years science will likely learn to treat whatever it is that kills me within the next 20 years and you will all be immortal cyborgs flying around with your non-stop erections while being serviced by slavebots with milky smooth unblemeshed skin and tits that never sag and I will be dead and my wife will have picked up one of the first models of androids with a hydraulic penis.

I was middle aged when the Human Genome Project began.


Dammit.

>>3085475
Copy Ray Kurzweil's pill regiment.

>>3085467
Decadent, perhaps, on their center of empire planet, but extinct?

>>3085467
Or the creators become part of the AI...

>>3085465

Insufficient data. Assumptions of similar psychology among alien species.

>>3085481
Actually, also references to stellar evolution. Supernovas, unpredictable orbits of asteroids, and other rogue shit. Given enough time, something astronomical will fuck your shit up.

>>3085482
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=960265

>>3085481
Also the assumption that the conditions an alien species creates as 'pollution' would be detrimental to them.

Technically you could orbit earth at any distance from the surface, given that you're going exactly like a bajillion and three km/hr right?

>>3085490
Atmospheric drag

Anyway guys, I'm off to bed. Nighty night.

If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day, venture to the stars.

>>3085485
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2008/03/seven-ways-to-control-galaxy-with-self.html
>>3085490
Too far & you enter solar orbit.

>>3085475

>>3085485

>Implying you made any such reference
>Implying a species capable of interstellar travel is not capable of protecting itself from those things

it's the little things that excite me.

>>3085509
>central park
>luxurious haven
>pick one

Idk. I feel like humankind's best bet to attain interstellar travel isn't to develop it, but to massively broadcast our presence and get it from anyone who responds. But the chances that whoever responds is friendly are slim. Essentially, we will either kill ourselves or politely ask someone else to do it for us.

>>3085511

....central park.......

I in no way implied it was a luxurious haven....

Are you retarded?

>>3085515
>he hasn't looked at his own picture.

>>3085515
Fair enough, i was talking about the pics text but i realize i read it wrong.

>>3085527
Cool png brah, i just corrected my mistake.

this is a fine time to be alive

societies are still growing, powered by the last remaining fossil fuels. technology is still improving. economies are still growing

those born into the fuel-less, strife torn, declining societies of the next century will look back at our golden age and weep

>>3085640

>fatalist

DOH HO HO HO