actually, if we were to discover an alien race, discovering an alien race that is about the same technological level as us would be ideal, we could be interstellar pen pals without any real likely-hood of meeting with each other within our lifetimes.
I agree. As for sending random signals out into space... "Everyone, we got noticed! We got a signal back! They're sending a ship our way to greet us!"
This is a topic that came up with when I was trying to design a realistic space war game based on non-FTL technology. Hell, even with FTL technology if you keep timescales realistic it comes up: How do you "run" a civilization that is splintered to 200 primary groups each with their entire socioeconomic systems so volatile that a society maintaining 50% of their civics and values for 100 years is an anomaly.. There's a movie called The Box. Spoiler: general level plot revelation In the movie humans have been contacted by an Alien civilization who have created an envoy of theirs from a NASA employee. NASA is cooperating with the Aliens who are running a series of tests to measure the "altruist coefficient" of human species. The test is as following: You will receive immense amount of money if you push a button in a box. As you press the button in the box someone you don't know will die. (Yes, this is a direct consequence of pushing the button, not a trick) After you've made your choice the box will be taken to someone else. It measures your altruism towards your species - will you kill a random person of your species if you'll receive a substantial reward given that you will never come across the person who's death you caused or anyone affected by it? The altruistic coefficient is a measure by which the Alien civilization measures the probability of survival for any given species. Obviously a species that scores very low will statistically be likely to kill each other off as they don't give a shit about each other. Manifest From all of this my own world view has come to encourage a life philosophy Spoiler: Manifest which emphasizes the importance of technological and military progress, which promotes individual freedoms but also requires conformity to the core ideals of survivalism on species level which are achieved by equal opportunity regardless of birth and status, heavy emphasis in technological progress and militarization of the entire species as well as a form of a species wide military alliance and sharing of technology. Individual regions may and should have different alternatives for daily life issues and people should always be allowed to choose the region they want to live in. Any ideologies that rival the core tenets of survival through scientific and military progress would be forbidden.
In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne I declare Exterminatus...
Ground Effect From Quora answer (quote): A brilliant Soviet airplane designer, Rostislav Alexeyev, discovered and designed the world’s first Ekranoplan Vehicles in 1960s. These vehicles, before the fall of Communism, evolved to their latest model, a prototype Jet Airplane that flew low on water to carry heavy loads incredibly fast. They called it The Caspian Sea Monster: Alexeyev used the premise of Ground Effect to conserve energy. “When an aircraft flies at a ground level approximately at or below the length of the aircraft's wingspan or helicopter's rotor diameter, there occurs, depending on airfoil and aircraft design, an often noticeable ground effect. This is caused primarily by the ground interrupting the wingtip vortices and downwash behind the wing. When a wing is flown very close to the ground, wingtip vortices are unable to form effectively due to the obstruction of the ground. The result is lower induced drag, which increases the speed and lift of the aircraft.” [1] The following shows the Prototype 1 of the floating aircraft proposed to enter the Soviet Navy: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Russian-helicopters-in-Syria-fly-so-low/answer/Amin-Ariana?srid=zfqv /QUOTE View from 2:00 onwards. Awesome and beautiful!
It looks like the view from my street corner. https://www.google.com/maps/place/l...6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x30a179609a94c4bd!6m1!1e1
BLUE ORIGIN! This a test of the escape module sequence which is introduced at the .45 sec mark. They fully expected the booster to be knocked of it's course or go "BOOM". That it completed it flight sequence on it's own and survived the seperation is remarkable. It reminds me of KSP,
At first I thought you were trolling me with a dildo but then it eventually rocketed off... So props to the team for making an actual dick shaped rocket.
Well, most rockets are rather phallic. Just the nature of the most efficient way to get something into orbit.
DAMMIT! Now you have set back woman's achievements into S.T.E.M. fields back 100000000000000000000000000000000 YEARS!
Not quite, just because something is cylindrical in shape with a cone on the top doesnt make it phallic. Blue origin rocket looks like a dick because the top is shaped like the head of a dick, while all others have a cone. or its a giant denma vibrator.
