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Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by sidcool » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:37 AM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #7

Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.) Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?

There is a very interesting concept that indicates that the limit of speed is not light, but the space itself. Space itself is such that it cannot let anything travel faster than light. It's like check points in space which slows down light to it's speed we call C.

May be somewhere in the universe, or within the black hole, space is malleable enough to allow faster than light travel. It's just a concept, but a very interesting one.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by midhir » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:39 AM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #4

Maybe they should talk to the "psychopathically righteous" GCU Grey Area - which apparently takes quite an interest in meat beings.

SShhhhhhuddup man. I'm halfway through Excession!

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by lucozade » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:39 AM UTC

I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'm a Turing test.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by laumars » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:44 AM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #7

Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.) Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?

You couldn't travel in 3 dimensional space faster than the speed of light, but you can travel vast distances faster by taking "short cuts" through other dimensions.

I'm guessing the author used 'C space' as a way of describing '3 dimensional' (ie a = 1, b = 2, c = 3). So 'C space beings' would be limited to light speed travel (unless we build meat containers that could manipulate or penetrate 'D space')

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by tim333 » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:47 AM UTC

>We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?

I'm wondering if we can fix that one.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by markyc » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:51 AM UTC

It's a nice story, but not very logical

If meat thinking beings were so unheard of, you'd think they'd be all over us, trying to get to know what makes us tick, and why not, talking to us.

Like if we'd find a talking dog.

Maybe a more logical conclusion would be if they'd go: "Oh, it's just another meat civilisation. Just let them wander around in the dark like all the others, there's no chance they'll ever find anyone". Not as funny, but more logical :D

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by lotsofmangos » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:56 AM UTC

emmen wrote: post #10

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #7

Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.) Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?

Barring significant new physics, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. And that's really a very probably no - although you see popular science stuff written like it can solve the problem, it doesn't, and we have no real expectation that anything will. Dark matter, if it is matter (and there are good but not totally confirmed reasons to think it is) is just that...matter. It would really be not that speci…

Well, other than space itself, hence the whole inflation idea when the whole universe expanded faster than the speed of light.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by Touche » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

markyc wrote: post #16

It's a nice story, but not very logical If meat thinking beings were so unheard of, you'd think they'd be all over us, trying to get to know what makes us tick, and why not, talking to us. Like if we'd find a talking dog. Maybe a more logical conclusion would be if they'd go: "Oh, it's just another meat civilisation. Just let them wander around in the dark like all the others, there's no chance they'll ever find anyo…

That's not the point of the story. The point of the story is to question your own assumptions.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by tomp » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

markyc wrote: post #16

It's a nice story, but not very logical If meat thinking beings were so unheard of, you'd think they'd be all over us, trying to get to know what makes us tick, and why not, talking to us. Like if we'd find a talking dog. Maybe a more logical conclusion would be if they'd go: "Oh, it's just another meat civilisation. Just let them wander around in the dark like all the others, there's no chance they'll ever find anyo…

Right... exactly the way Europeans approached the Africans.

Re: They're Made out of Meat

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Post by markyc » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 12:01 PM UTC

tomp wrote: post #19

markyc wrote: post #16

It's a nice story, but not very logical If meat thinking beings were so unheard of, you'd think they'd be all over us, trying to get to know what makes us tick, and why not, talking to us. Like if we'd find a talking dog. Maybe a more logical conclusion would be if they'd go: "Oh, it's just another meat civilisation. Just let them wander around in the dark like all the others, there's no chance they'll ever find anyo…

Right... exactly the way Europeans approached the Africans.

sadly, that is more logical ..