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Comment Re:Interesting (Score 2) 293

Personally i can put up with rats in the toilet if i have WiFi.

On a more serious note. It is only the top end expensive places that charge for internet. The backpackers and cheap motels i have stayed not only have free internet, but it was fast as well. Hell even some campsites i have been too have free internet.

Comment Re:Nonstop action? Whattabore. (Score 1) 332

Yea alot of the old shit was done to a very low standard. I mean really Shit Standard. These days we demand stuff that is better. Just because its old doesn't make it good.

Sure it may have seemed good the first time because you where like 5 years old. Trek was and always will be "pop" TV and Cinema.

Comment Re:"Physics" (Score 1) 289

Wormholes and Alcubierre warp drives are both constructs within the framework of the currently-accepted physical theories

Err no they are not. First of all the all violate energy principals widely accepted to hold. Second they need *negative mass* that has *zero* theoretical underpinnings. That is, withing the currently accepted physical theories they are quite impossible. Then add the fact that the basic Alcubierre drive needs more energy than the visible universe and is causally disconnected from the rest of the universe....

We find maths that describes reality, not the other way round. A good example is how high will a ball go when thrown upwards at a given speed. One of the solutions can give a complex number. We just ignore it as physically impossible.

Just because the math has a solution in some abstract mathematical sense does not mean is represents anything to do with reality.

Comment Re:You will not go to wormhole today. (Score 1) 289

Thermodynamics doesn't apply at large scales. Relativity doesn't necessarily conserve energy, for example; where does the energy from red-shifted photons go?

That is a fairly easy undergrad problem. It is very easy to show thermodynamics, conversation of energy, conservation of momentum and everything else is *not* violated in *all* frames of reference.

Comment Re:You will not go to wormhole today. (Score 1) 289

Gravity waves travel at the speed of light. Not faster. Quantum entanglement does not affect anything. It is a mathematical construct to derive the outcomes of measurements. It has been proven many many times that no information or anything else for that matter is "transmitted", let alone faster than light.

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