You should stop making threads.

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You should stop reading them.

Does Newt Gingrich get to be its captain?

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Please, with the amount of hot air that man produces he'd be totally unfit to be the captain.

He'd be the power source.

Lemme guess: you want to call it the SS Ron Paul?

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I was thinking more along the lines of an Admiral.


Don't give me ideas!

I vote Edward James Olmos.

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Michael Mullen.

Two words.

Space Mormons.

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Do you want every alien race we come in contact with to declare war with us!?

Wait, don't answer that.

The HMS Rufin.
Catchy, eh?

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They could go to Kolob!

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I sense a great disturbance in the Force...

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“Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.” - George H.W. Bush

Nope. We'll call it SS EARTH FOR THE WIN!

Ron Paul can be the admiral, Newt Gingrich the project director.

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...~Thomas Jefferson


So instead of seeing this as a continuation of an era of the 20th century that gave us so much debt and destruction and undermined our liberties and conditions today that are so dangerous, let us think that we are now moving into a new era, a new era where we are going to concentrate on liberty and freedom and property rights and peace. I believe that is the cause that we should lead and I thank you very much for being part of it.~Ron Paul

You should name it Sovereign, so our tag line can be 'you exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.'

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Hell in fact, make it look like a Reaper! And we'll build Geth and Collectors to protect it!

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...~Thomas Jefferson


So instead of seeing this as a continuation of an era of the 20th century that gave us so much debt and destruction and undermined our liberties and conditions today that are so dangerous, let us think that we are now moving into a new era, a new era where we are going to concentrate on liberty and freedom and property rights and peace. I believe that is the cause that we should lead and I thank you very much for being part of it.~Ron Paul

It'll be powered by the harnessed rage of the Story Forums. At those levels we'll be traveling faster than transwarp.

Well I'd support the idea with my vote if it ever happened.

But I don't see it being anything more then a cool toy. Considering that with the best propulsion system (and I am pulling this out of my ass, but it's not like I don't know anything) we have right now it would still take this ship months to get to Mars, let alone anything interesting.

What would obviously have to be done before this project is to develop radical new tech so that the ship we eventually do build is meaningful and practically useful, and there is where we hit a hitch. The nations would be distrustful with one another about this research project... So yeah, blame politics as always.

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From my limited physics knowledge, the speed isn't the biggest problem it's the acceleration besides the obvious problem (money). Humans can't handle past a certain amount of G and that's where it gets tricky. Theoretically we can handle any speed whatsoever, even 100 times the speed of light, it just matters how fast we get there.

And then you have the question of how to avoid asteroids and all. And then radiation?

So far I think the fastest thing we've built is somewhere in the area of Mach 30-40.

I always figured that the biggest problem would be the distance. We'd need an incredible amount of speed to cross that distance in one human life span (it'd still take a fucking long time if you had multiple generations).

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As far as I understand my physics G force shouldn't be an issue in space, and the spaceship would obviously never take off from earth surface but would be built in space.

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We aren't ready to be spreading our stupidity to other planets yet.

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"Noble countrymen, evil is upon us. Darkness has befallen our shores. Rise and slay thy enemies… strike, strike so others shall live. The meek shall not fade into the night… live my brethren, live." - King Terenas Menethil II

We can't be much worse than the Krogan, right?

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So like, on a moon base?