This in from NASA

You know, the more I read about space exploration, the more convinced I am that we will probably never colonise other planets in a significant manner; over 90% of all planets are either too far or too close to their sun, gas giants or lacking a critical element, be it water, magnetic field or atmosphere. And even if we were to find a suitable planet, it would be so far away, that our spaceship would not physically and technologically withstand the journey.

And aliens, although I am sure they exist, I fear we won't meet any for a long, long time, since habitable planets are so few and far between and the ones that harbour intelligent, advanced life in the same period of our existence are likely to be out of reach. (I realise that the conditions for the evolution of life need not be the same for every species; in fact, they may vary wildly, but still the odds are against one such encounter.)

I don't mean to be a party buster... I'm just really annoyed ( ) I wasn't born a thousand years from now, in a time when we'll have spaceships possibly advanced enough to make it to the final frontier.

On a lighter note here is proof that there is no intelligent life in the Universe:

From YouTube, Fun with SunBurn, the engine I am working on for Supremacy:

(Those are flying windmills from an example game on the Supremacy webpage.)

and now this:


KOI 172.02 or is that spelled Cardassian?

cool
sad we can't take a look to see what's there

I believe It might happen one day, although we or our children won't see it yet.





Or is it?

Unfortunately Warp 10 is not the same here as in Star Trek, here it refers to the multiplication factor of the speed of light, that means ten times the speed of light, while in Star Trek the factor is computed from a more complex formula.

Be it warp 10 or not I call dibs on the position of chief engineer of Humanity's first FTL space exploration ship.

Well, I used a more complex formula for the examples I mentioned, based on a fit of actual values I found a long time ago on the wikis and elsewhere. So, my values are as "realistic" as possible (=in line with the series).

Read the spoiler below at your own risk

Ok, so we'll apply for crew positions then

Given my science background, I call dibs for Chief Engineer

Damn, you got me there chief engineer Vjeko ;-)

OK then, I call dibs for science officer (Spock's or Data's job)

Might as well call dibs for Mess officer, cook and (maybe) diplomatic "amuser", since I've got music recipes. How's that?

Welcome aboard.

Thank you sir!

Don't be fightin' over them ranks! There are more than ONE chief something on a ship, for when the one played by a main actor was off-duty. On the Enterprise-D, they had several chief engineers and chief medical officers (you can tell from the dialogues). In this case, I'd be invaluable on the ship, since science, psychology and cooking are among my passions. Add to those hundreds of hours of Need for Speed "experience" and a degree in linguistics, I'd be eligible for a number of positions, like science officer, counselor, chef, helm officer and communications officer.

so where is that ship gonna head?
I rather expect once we have the technology we'll first send cheap drones to check it out and then rather all keep home and enjoy with instant transmission via quantum mechanics which is already known to work faster than light.
We probably will feel being there for real with computers adapted to our brains and feel no need to raise a single fingertip.

I believe our first mission will be to visit Proxima....

lol a bit dark over there

We also need a first officer and a conn officer....