to nfinity and beyond

Ok, so that's probably one of the lamer blog titles you're going to see, but you know what? It's staying. Oh, and I finally added a chatbox, so have at it and spam away. Uh.. Let's see, right, today's topic shall be - space, time travel, and teleportation. Probably a geeky topic, but I hope it won't bore you to death... there's some interesting (I think) concepts and ridiculousness to this topic.

First up: extraterrestrial life. Do you ever get fired up when you read about a new planet, or rock, or whatever it is they've found, that the planet can't support life because there's no water. I'm sure they mean - can't support *Earth* lifeforms; even so, it's still retarded that they say it... so what if it can't support our life - why does it need to? It's not like we're going to be colonizing those distant rocks any time soon... (I'm sure I could be very wrong and getting a very wrong impression from the articles that I skim through - I don't really read them, if it comes up in the news, I'll skim through them... This is simply the impression I get from the articles I've skimmed. Keep in mind I could be absolutely wrong <-- Just a disclaimer for those who *love* to pick apart other people's opinions.)

So, I get the impression that there is the idea that "If there is no water on a planet, there is no life". Do you ever get that impression? Don't you think that it's a little silly? Maybe it was a requirement for Earth-life, but why does it need to be a requirement for all life. Maybe I've been influenced too much by sci-fi media - games, movies, books - but honestly, there could be life on Venus or Mercury or something, hiding from us and we wouldn't know it. Anyway, so I guess from this, you can tell that I believe there is life outside of our little planet. I hope that sometime in my life we may confirm this - I think that'd be awesome: unless, they're hellbent on destroying us - then that'd suck. At the same time, I realize this is probably very unlikely. There may very well have been or will be life in the universe, but it might've been before the human era, or after humans go extinct or something. Timespan is simply too massive that there'd be so little probability that an intelligent lifeform would be existing at the same time as we are now, and with the same and/or better space technology. That just means we'll hafta wait for Mass Effect to play with aliens... la la la

Oh, time.. right, I was watching this video on YouTube about time travel and think, ok this is kinda cool. But wait, it makes NO SENSE AT ALL... the conclusions seem to come out of his butt. I'm sure he's got research and fancy formulas that "support" him... but, I say wtf. I'm very open minded, anything is possible - but only if it makes sense.. ( I suppose making sense has to do with what mindset I have, but if there's good enough support, a mindset can change) This doesn't have good enough support. Ok, let's break it down shall we:

"But rather, it's the coffee that's moving the bean around"
- Ok I can dig it, makes sense

"This rotating space supplies the boost that's needed to allow an object to break the lightspeed barrier without violating the laws of physics."
- Come again? Wouldn't it only be able to travel as fast as the "coffee" is rotating? Explain pl0x...

"Within that rotating region of space, you can travel speeds up to the speed of light."
- Makes sense, do go on.

"But for someone standing outside, it would appear as though you're traveling faster than the speed of light..."
- Wait... wtf? If you've watched the whole video, he proposes that sick laser setup (the cgi looks cool, but looking cool won't make a time machine)... now, why would it look like the particle is traveling faster than the speed of light? Maybe my physics completely sucks balls, but, what frame of reference allows this? Ok, I'll take your word for it, just because I'm stupid.

"...and for them, you will disappear from sight, as you're traveling back into the past."
- Ok, this is where my complete WTF where did that come from?! I'm probably wrong on this, but I'll try anyway, because I'm a dork/nerd... if I'm a particle, and I'm moving close to the speed of light, then one second in my time is like a hundred years or something of the observer's time. ... so... doesn't this mean that I can only travel forward in time? I mean, the faster I go - one second will be even a longer amount of time for the observer... now... HOW DO I GO BACK IN TIME? Unless there's some complete standstill of time at the speed of light, and beyond makes me go backwards in time or something... this doesn't really make much sense to my brain though. I'm sure he has backup for all this crazy talk, but I sure as hell can't comprehend it. Maybe all logic breaks down at the speed of light and I can do whatever the balls I want. That would be interesting no?

Speaking of defying logic... instantaneous transmit of information. The joys of quantum physics. I was reading this article about transmitting information. It's really quite funky how it works out that way. Their explanation actually made sense too - or maybe I've just read more about it than time travel. I was skeptical about the validity of an article that had the words 'Star Trek' in it, but it makes sense after reading it. Cool stuff, thought I'd share. Maybe in the future, we'll subscribe to feeds in our heads. And then, once it's typed down somewhere, we'll instantly have the article in our mind. Wouldn't that be ridiculous! I'm such a dork.

Hopefully that didn't bore you to death. I'm just typing because I'm bored. Oh yeah, lemme know if ya wanna be linked up. (Will you be my blog friend!. or something) Enjoy life. nfinite signing out.