War Room Lounge v72: Nope

[Fawlty]

Time dilatation helps, though.

Sure, but best of luck getting near relativistic speed with anything mass > 0

That's still quite a trick!

 

[Fawlty]

Yeah, I was more thinking about cases where MMA fans believe 'it's that or drugs or both'.

Kinda like Chuck yes, Tito no. Tony yes, Bisping no

Oh yeah Chuck for sure seems bad, forgot him. If Tony really has CTE symptoms already, he's going to be a really bad case when it hits him fully.

 

[Sketch]

Only Tim Hague as far as official cases.

B.J. for sure, with his violence and threats and craziness is the top contender imo. We're still a few years off from reliably diagnosing it in living people, I think.

Few years off for sure but it will happen. CTE is no joke.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Hopefully Bellator doesn't pick him up.

Also, I'm not counting on the lounge solving the Fermi paradox. At least not without appeals to Hunt.

 

[Sketch]

Islam is right about women.​

 

[JDragon]

Islam is right about women.​

And left about the nation state.

 

[HockeyBjj]

We're still a few years off from reliably diagnosing it in living people, I think.

Very sad that with all the advances in medical technologies an mri type scane that can reliably diagnose CTE, and even better varying grades of it or pre CTE signs, would be good news for a lot of people.

Get out of the violent sports like football or hockey or even a lot of us in here amateur or hobby training mma or boxing if signs are seen and live a mentally healthy life until old age rather than just hoping you haven't messed something up beyond repair.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Hey @Gregolian did you know that heading into last night Aaron Rodgers was undefeated in home games when he had 10+ point lead?

All good things must come to an end doe

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

The odds of alien life having actually visited us is so slim to none that it may as well BE 0. Most species, by the time they are able to travel out into the stars would be left with a very simple question. Why? What gain would it have? If they have multiple planets in system (like ours does) resources wouldnt exactly be scarse. Not to mention that would probably already live in a situation where they want and need for very little if anything at all. So barring a level of curiosity that drives them to do it, there really is no purpose for any species to explore beyond their own system.

I hope such an advanced species isn't that pathetic.

Far bigger than any other problem is travel distance/time. We could be jumping with life all over the place and nobody would ever know. Hitting the bull's eye by stumbling upon life at its technological peak is already tough, probably, but even that is relatively easy compared to the limits of physics and the vastness of space.

That's the real problem, the distances and the speed of light. Except if something like scifi warp is possible deep space exploration is impossible.

It's hard coming to terms with the fact that an untalented, stupid piece of shit like Paul Ryan will live a long, happy life and influence the world more than I ever will.

For real. I personally would be so much less angry at the state of world politics if it were at the hands of basically talented and intelligent people. But the Republican Party, which is the most important party in the world, is literally a factory for privileged, unscrupulous assholes that pander to morons.

Just give me conservative who are minimally talented like Boris Johnson over in the UK: woefully stupid and incompetent relative to his left-wing contemporaries, but much smarter and more cunning than the average person.

Who knows Trotsky, maybe you will be great some day. Just spend less time on Sherdog and more time on politics.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

I know about that guy. He makes peanuts. He owes money to the government while making next to nothing. He admitted today about working in factory for 29k a year.

He invested in his education, working as a lawyer he will pay his debts quickly. Nothing wrong with working in a factory for 29k.

Well yah, but the resources needed to traverse the distance plus the time means there are diminishing returns. When it costs far, far less to send a probe to do the same thing, ot becomes quite the stretch to say 'Nah, let's just spend a few hundred years flying there'.

Yes but by then life may be not biological and a probe is still a form of exploration.

 

[Rational Poster]

I'm incredibly skeptical that we'll ever develope spacecraft capable of light speed travel, even unmanned.

That's not even the problem.. you need to be capable of speeds exponentially faster than light speed if you want to reach even the closest nearby system in any sort of reasonable amount of time. It's over 2 million light-years

Aliens would have to be traveling here before we even existed to make it here if they were even capable of exponential light speeds.

 

[JDragon]

Sure, but best of luck getting near relativistic speed with anything mass > 0

That's still quite a trick!

Absolutely. But just saying that the vastness of space will not be the key problem for humans who would like to do interstellar travel or even travel beyond the milky way:

Accelerating to speeds closer to the speed of light with a relativistic rocket would allow the on-ship travel time to be drastically lower, but would require very large amounts of energy. A way to do this is space travel using constant acceleration. Traveling to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2 million light years away, would take 28 years on-ship time with a constant acceleration of 1g and a deceleration of 1g after reaching half way, to be able to stop.

So the key problem is the absurd amount of energy that's required. Somehow I don't think that's a problem that can never be solved, though. Give mankind a couple hundred years and assume we don't wipe ourselves out via nuclear war, environmental causes, diseases etcetera.

 

[Gregolian]

Hey @Gregolian did you know that heading into last night Aaron Rodgers was undefeated in home games when he had 10+ point lead?

All good things must come to an end doe

Given I went to the high school Doug went to. I hope someone slits his dick then shuts down his throat.

“But that’s not pass interference”

Fucking refs. The MVS one is the one that’s passing me off as well as no ejection for the late helmet hit on Williams

 

[Gregolian]

I'm incredibly skeptical that we'll ever develope spacecraft capable of light speed travel, even unmanned.

That's not even the problem.. you need to be capable of speeds exponentially faster than light speed if you want to reach even the closest nearby system in any sort of reasonable amount of time. It's over 2 million light-years

Aliens would have to be traveling here before we even existed to make it here if they were even capable of exponential light speeds.

BUT I WANT AN XWING AND AWING!!!!

 

[waiguoren]

Meh, that's a Democrat pipe dream. Show me those retards actually voting instead of pouting and smoking weed, and then maybe we'll have something to work with.

@Fawlty

No, it's not a "pipe dream" for a Democratic presidential candidate to get 100,000s of non-voters to the polls. It takes a special candidate, though. Barack Obama did it in 2008. I'm talking in particular about young people who don't usually vote or even pay attention to politics. You should be very confident that Biden will fail to pull this off, and on the contrary he would probably depress the youth vote relative to a typical election.

 

[tonni]

I look like a startled cat in almost every picture taken from me.

 

[tonni]

What if UFO is giant space birds

 

[waiguoren]

@Jack V Savage

Front page of the Washington Post right now:

A woman was filmed screaming the n-word 14 times at CVS. Police are investigating it as a ‘hate incident.’


I know you hold this paper in high regard. Why does such an insignificant story (no injuries, no one even targeted) justify front page coverage?


At the same time, we have this story, which didn't make the pages of the Washington Post at all:

 

[Andy Capp]

Pics or i'm going to assume it's actually some hairy fat guy

Or a fairy hat guy.

I'm incredibly skeptical that we'll ever develope spacecraft capable of light speed travel, even unmanned.

That's not even the problem.. you need to be capable of speeds exponentially faster than light speed if you want to reach even the closest nearby system in any sort of reasonable amount of time. It's over 2 million light-years

Aliens would have to be traveling here before we even existed to make it here if they were even capable of exponential light speeds.

Hm. I think you're referring to the next nearest galaxy. The closest star is Proxima Centauri at ~4.3ly.

 

[Trotsky]

@Jack V Savage

Front page of the Washington Post right now:

A woman was filmed screaming the n-word 14 times at CVS. Police are investigating it as a ‘hate incident.’


I know you hold this paper in high regard. Why does such an insignificant story (no injuries, no one even targeted) justify front page coverage?


At the same time, we have this story, which didn't make the pages of the Washington Post at all:

One is the subject of a viral video that has been viewed several million times and the other is not.