Jason Shankel's discussions

I've had this conversation 10,000 times below already. I get it. I really get it. I honestly and for true have always gotten it. Light never travels faster than light. Locally, light always travels at the same speed. I KNOW. Read more

You bond with the characters...it's a story we want to tell...hardly a day goes by when I don't ask myself "what color would I like the ending, which I can in no way affect, to be?" Read more

Oh, criminy. Please look at the rest of this thread. I absolutely understand that spacetime is being warped and that light is not locally speeding up but that rather apparent travel distance is being shortened by the warp.

I've clarified over and over and over and over again that this is a semantic point. I'll… Read more

The theme of young men dying and being conscripted into a cause beyond their comprehension in another dimension reminded me of Vietnam. Phantasm came before Evil Dead, but Evil Dead used the same point of view demon camera that Phantasm used for the silver ball POV shots. Read more

Probably to document the obnoxious behavior of Team Dog Read more

I didn't say anything about debris. Please look at the rest of this thread. This topic has become exceedingly tedious for me. I'll summarize one more time:

1) It is against the laws of the universe for anything with mass to ever beat a light beam in a race. It is not allowed. It cannot be done. Any technology… Read more

As an atheist, my take is that gathering in the name of atheism is a little bit like gathering to not re-enact the Civil War. Read more

I have been over this and over this. Please look at the whole entire rest of the thread.

Here is my statement:

This technology, by warping space, allows a ship to APPARENTLY travel faster than light, in the sense of being able to voyage from here to proxima centauri in under four years, because the technology in… Read more

That was awesome...though it was in Return of the King, wasn't it? Read more

Thanks...there are tougher things people have to endure, but it does get frustrating :) Read more

I know. Really. I know. See the rest of the thread for how thoroughly this topic has been covered. Read more

Extreme Alt-History: What if the Nazis had won the Civil War? IN SPACE?!? Read more

Gotta have something to do with axial tilt. They keep saying "winter is coming...the days are getting shorter." Read more

That's either a really crappy movie or a really awesome video game. Read more

Along with Cafe Flesh, we also recommend Night Dreams and Dr. Caligari. If you can masturbate to any of these films, you're either very sick or very healthy.

I go with the multiverse model not necessarily because it must be physical, but because all the non-multiverse models boil down to "the one, singular universe contains invisible mathematical constructs that make it behave like a multiverse."

If you're living in a geocentric solar system with a complex array of… Read more

I know. Please see the entire whole rest of this thread for details of how I really, really, really, actually really totally understand that locally light does not increase in speed. Read more

Thanks. And the key idea is that this technology does not permit you to outrun a light beam, which is the only real restriction of relativity. Read more

Yeah, there's no way we could possibly engineer this with our current technology. Chances are Hawking radiation alone would wipe out everything in the vicinity. Read more

Right, we can always be wrong about anything. But in this case, we still find ourselves bound by the limitations of relativity and this particular scheme exploits a loophole because it does not allow you to outrun a light beam. It may be possible someday that we will find that relativity is inherently wrong, our… Read more