Stargate Universe (SGU)

[snowchimo]

Has anyone been following it?

I have been watching the eps as they come out, and I think it's a brilliant show...

Maybe I'm just a nerd though... :cool:

anyone have any thoughts?

[Crystal]

Yup, we are watching it too...I think it's great :D I actually asked +1 in the car yesterday If he thought humans would ever get to that level of technology.... maybe we are nerds too

[ 26. October 2009, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Crystal ]

[snowchimo]

by the look of the amount of replies, I think you're right Crystal...

maybe we are the token nerds of the snowatch world.

and that kind of technology would be awesome... Who wouldn't like a spaceship which powers itself off the stars themselves... BRILLIANT...

[ausi ski bum]

No your not alone, I have been watching, its great, I also really like Flash Forward.

[Vet]

I confess!

[Jay]

I own all 10 seasons of SG1 and all 5 seasons of Atlantis, but I haven't seen any of the new series yet.

In regard to the technology question...It is possible but without sounding super duper negative I think the human race will die out before we get that far. Its in our nature to learn and explore but its also in our nature to comsume and breed out of control, so its a battle to see what happens first. Will technology save us before we kill ourselves?

[Vet]

Of course technology will save us, provided we wipe out most of the planet before they get the technology. ;)

[snowchimo]

Originally posted by Jay:
I own all 10 seasons of SG1 and all 5 seasons of Atlantis, but I haven't seen any of the new series yet.

In regard to the technology question...It is possible but without sounding super duper negative I think the human race will die out before we get that far. Its in our nature to learn and explore but its also in our nature to comsume and breed out of control, so its a battle to see what happens first. Will technology save us before we kill ourselves? Yeh, I own all 10 seasons of SG-1 too..

actually, Einstein would argue with you in terms of time travel. The problem is that, according to the theory of relativity, as we get closer to the speed of light, our mass increases, causing it even harder to go faster... so for us to reach lightspeed, we would actually have an infinite mass, which is an improbability, depending on the validity of the theory... again.. it's just a theory, but it seems to work, and hasn't been refuted yet.

maybe you're right... maybe we will find some kind of ancient power source to power our X-302s, and promethiuses... And I'm almost certain that the world governments have emerging technologies which are not released to the media or the public...

On that note, Has anyone ever thought that the Stargate series' is a real-world application of Wormhole Extreme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_X-Treme!)? Maybe the shows have been allowed to run, because it makes the possibility of wormhole travel less able to be believed, because it's a part of 'fiction'... or am I just rambling on here? Does anyone understand my fan-boy reasoning? I hope there is at least one person who understands...

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[Shorty936]

I watched ep 1 and 2 last night looks pretty good so far
Looking forward to 3,4 and 5 tonight

[Jay]

Wormhole extreme hahaha. Anything is possible I guess but I think you're just getting your hopes up hahaha.

Having spaceships that travel at light speed or near light speed would be pointless coz its too slow. However, I did read about 6 months ago that a small group of theoretical physicists were working on the idea of 'wormholes' (as they are now known), amoung other things power is a big problem with this idea. Invent something close to a ZPM and we'd be sweet haha.

In all seriousness though, it will be hundreds if not thousands of years away if at all. Funding is a joke. The best technologies we have are ones that companies can make money on so funding is given for extra research. Research for the sake of exploration and the pursuit of knowledge don't get as much funding which is a croc, in my opinion this is why break throughs take so long and why we reinvent technology instead of making something new i.e. clean coal.

In saying all that its a hard job for world leaders to allocate funds, different things are important to different people and governments have to cater as best they can. Our best bet is if the private sector picks up the slack but again they'd only do it to make a consumer market out of it, we'd get the technologies but no one will implement it.

It wouldn't suprise me if instead of researching solutions to climate change, research sky rockets in the boating industry in anticipation of rising sea levels, no? hahaha.