Comments on: An Easier Way to Get Around http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:09:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-79802 Tian Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:17:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-79802 I'm looking forward to meeting lots of other creatures. Hope my life won't be like a mayfly compared to the whole trip to Eagle Nebula. How is this stuff going to get there if I can't carry my bags when we get there? I’m looking forward to meeting lots of other creatures. Hope my life won’t be like a mayfly compared to the whole trip to Eagle Nebula. How is this stuff going to get there if I can’t carry my bags when we get there?

]]> By: GrassyNoel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-79679 GrassyNoel Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:31:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-79679 You sound like someone who moves to live next to an airport and then complains about the noise :-) You sound like someone who moves to live next to an airport and then complains about the noise :-)

]]> By: Marshall Eubanks http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-59092 Marshall Eubanks Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:00:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-59092 <i>Samuel Arbesman (who may have a tad too much time on his hands)</i> Not nearly as much as you would need to actually take one of these lines. Samuel Arbesman (who may have a tad too much time on his hands)

Not nearly as much as you would need to actually take one of these lines.

]]> By: w.e.d. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58879 w.e.d. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:32:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58879 Wait - which one's the monorail? I want to ride up front with the pilot! Wait – which one’s the monorail? I want to ride up front with the pilot!

]]> By: Cannonball Jones http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58828 Cannonball Jones Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:09:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58828 Differential rotation may pose something of a problem but if we can manage to dig up Leith Walk in Edinburgh to get a tram line installed without too many casualties I'm sure we can get around pesky cosmological obstacles. Are there mobs drunken gorillas wandering through the Milky Way threatening to bottle the Interstellar Engineering Corp as they try to lay down the lines? I think not... Differential rotation may pose something of a problem but if we can manage to dig up Leith Walk in Edinburgh to get a tram line installed without too many casualties I’m sure we can get around pesky cosmological obstacles. Are there mobs drunken gorillas wandering through the Milky Way threatening to bottle the Interstellar Engineering Corp as they try to lay down the lines? I think not…

]]> By: Peter Coles http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58824 Peter Coles Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:01:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58824 Aaron F, Differential rotation makes any such move illegal unless of course the player uses Huguenot's gamble. This is a very risky move and is usually considered illegal by referees in the Northern (Galactic) hemisphere. In the South, players often get away with it as blind-side manoeuvres are treated with some indulgence. It's a good point though. I think we'll have to call for a ruling on this one... Peter Aaron F,

Differential rotation makes any such move illegal unless of course the player uses Huguenot’s gamble. This is a very risky move and is usually considered illegal by referees in the Northern (Galactic) hemisphere. In the South, players often get away with it as blind-side manoeuvres are treated with some indulgence.

It’s a good point though. I think we’ll have to call for a ruling on this one…

Peter

]]> By: Fermi-Walker Public Transport http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58807 Fermi-Walker Public Transport Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:29:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58807 Julianne, Yep, the secret in these public transport systems is not to let the the passenger's reference frame be affected by too much curvature for stretched-out passengers will not be repeat customers. Julianne,
Yep, the secret in these public transport systems is not to let the the passenger’s reference frame be affected by too much curvature for stretched-out passengers will not be repeat customers.

]]> By: Julianne http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58746 Julianne Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:05:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58746 Zachb -- unless we're expecting species developing in interstellar gas and dust, then life should cluster with stars. And I've been <i>waiting</i> for a comment by Fermi-Walker Public Transport! You've got to be an expert on this sort of system, right? Zachb — unless we’re expecting species developing in interstellar gas and dust, then life should cluster with stars.

And I’ve been waiting for a comment by Fermi-Walker Public Transport! You’ve got to be an expert on this sort of system, right?

]]> By: Fermi-Walker Public Transport http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58739 Fermi-Walker Public Transport Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:04:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58739 Julianne, What you identified as a bug in this system is actually a feature for it means that parts of it will have to be reconstructed every few million years. A continuous money for Halliburton Galactic as decreed by Lord Cheney. Julianne,

What you identified as a bug in this system is actually a
feature for it means that parts of it will have to be reconstructed every few million years. A continuous money for Halliburton Galactic as decreed by Lord Cheney.

]]> By: Aaron F. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/comment-page-1/#comment-58719 Aaron F. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:00:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/01/09/an-easier-way-to-get-around/#comment-58719 Peter Coles -- I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning. What's to stop a player from reaching Omega Centauri and then immediately invoking Ee-tah's rule, leaving her with a straight shot from Hawking's Chair to the Crab Nebula from the North? Peter Coles — I’m afraid I don’t follow your reasoning. What’s to stop a player from reaching Omega Centauri and then immediately invoking Ee-tah’s rule, leaving her with a straight shot from Hawking’s Chair to the Crab Nebula from the North?

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