Where's the wormhole??!! I wanna go through the wormhole!


>> ^blutruth:

"Mt. Aetna erupts Spectacularly, Dec 12 2011."
I believe your title requires some work. ^

Waiting for a wormhole to open at the end

Stephen Hawking looks terrible! Did he fall down a wormhole?

The concept of life outside of earth ought to be part of everyone's reality. I don't know about alien spacecraft actually visiting us and shooting beams of light into missile silos. If aliens were studying us it'd probably be accomplised by something like remote viewing through a wormhole or some such. In other words completely undetectable. What I am almost certain about is that alien life must exist. To me, looking out at the universe and believing we're the only life that exists is like one speck of sand believing it's special and magical among all the other specks of sand in existence. The numbers are against the presence of life here being unique. Most likely, life is commonplace. And I believe that intelligence is simply the logical result of self-organizing biology... intelligence leads to greater energy capture which is the immediate purpose of biological self-organization. In most cases you probably only get one intelligent species on a life-bearing planet at a time, but there are more planets out there than stars. Which is to say, a lot of cases.

Back to the wormhole thing. There's a theory that, at some point in the future, humans will develop remote viewing technology. That is, the use of wormholes to peer through time and space, giving an undetectable *live view* of events from the past. Not exactly visiting the past, more like snaking a SWAT team camera through time via wormholes. Now, according to the rules of big numbers, given the existence of remote viewing technology in the future, and future extending for millions and billions of years... every single moment of every single person's life is probably being directly observed by someone in the future. Of course, more important moments are being watched by billions or trillions of people from the future. But on average, every moment is watched at least once. Think about that shit.

Arthur C Clarke wrote a book around this concept called The Light of Other Days. Needless to say, the ultimate, ultimate extents of the technology in the book are pretty mindblowing.

Portal in a Nutshell. (MAJOR SPOILERS - you'd be better off just playing the thing yourself - it's a perfect game IMO)

Created by Valve, makers of Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, Portal is at it's heart an ingeneous puzzle game that focuses around a Portal gun. This gun is basically a wormhole gun that allows you to project entry/exit points onto walls, ceilings and floors which you can then travel through. The physics in the game are perfect and momentum figures into the puzzles in a very satisfying way. The increasingly more challenging levels are all based around getting from the beginning of the level to the end, and some of the later ones take some real brain power to figure out.

Beyond this, they've crafted a fairly brilliant story, narrated by the only speaking character in the game, GLaDOS, who is the insane computer in charge of the research facility that you are trapped in. The dialog is very witty and the rapidly decreasing mental state of GLaDOS's AI, and adds a lot of tension to the game. You slowly realize that there are major problems with this facility, and things unfold in an interesting way.

At one point, you are tasked with caring for a 'companion cube'. Later you are asked to 'kill' the cube by dropping it into an incinerator. Later in the game GLaDOS reprimands you for doing this.

As a reward for completing all of the research challenges, you are promised a tasty slice of cake. As inevitably escape research maze, you find notes from others who have presumably escaped too. You find things on the wall that say 'The Cake Is A Lie'.

Great boss battle at the end, and just when you think the fun is over, GLaDOS herself sings this amazing hilarious song by Johnathan Coultan.

In reply to this comment by Croccydile:
Am I the last gamer on Earth to not know what the deal is with this game? The limit of my knowledge involves overplayed jokes about some cake or something.

>> ^alizarin:
He makes allot of assuming that using all possible resources is the basis of everything. Our population is going to top out - our technologically advanced cultures already have negative population growth when you subtract immigration. And maybe we'll choose not to create a megalomaniacal AI. What else are we going to need the energy from a Dyson sphere for?


>> ^alizarin:
He makes allot of assuming that using all possible resources is the basis of everything. Our population is going to top out - our technologically advanced cultures already have negative population growth when you subtract immigration. And maybe we'll choose not to create a megalomaniacal AI. What else are we going to need the energy from a Dyson sphere for?


There's really not a lot of assuming here. Our current society practically worships the complete use of a resource as wastefully as possible. The conversion from crude oil to refined is only around 90% efficient. And yes, you are correct, most industrialized nations see a negative population growth. However, we are about 5 billion people over populated for our planet so that's not really a bad thing.

What will we need energy for? Who knows. Then again, 200 years ago did people think we'd need energy for tv's, electric cars, laptop computers, mobile phones, etc? Who knows what's next! We could need energy for bio-mechanical suits or propulsion of space ships. Maybe the power we need to create stable wormholes is the equivalent of all the energy we produce on earth today. Hell, the replicators you see on Star Trek TNG would require tremendous amounts of power without a storeroom of atoms to build from. With enough energy, we can just build our own atoms. Teleportation would require tremendous amounts of energy if possible.

Basically, we don't know what we'll need energy for, all we know is we'll need more of it. All we can say is following current trends that in 100 or 200 or more years we'll need a LOT more power than we need today.

"This technological breakthrough you have created... is insignificant... next to the power of JEEEEEEEESUS."

All Jesus has to do is snap his fingers, and he'll be magically transported across the universe. Forget wormholes. Where JESUS goes, there is no need for wormholes. *puts sunglasses on* *snap* *POOF!*

Why is everyone harshin' this vid? I thought it was fucking amazing! First one with a wormhole to the centre of the milky way LMAO. But seriously wouldn't it be great if the human race would grow the fuck up?

"I'm not very good at singing songs"

No, but you sure could write some beautiful poetry:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch

You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes

You might emerge somewhere else in space

Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us

If we do not destroy ourselves

We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths

Of exquisite interrelationships

Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully

On how well we understand this cosmos

In which we float like a mote of dust

In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect

It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes

it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one

Has an elaborate logical underpinning

The brain has it's own language

For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]

For thousands of years

People have wondered about the universe

Did it stretch out forever

Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes

From dark matter to a possible big crunch

Our image of the universe today

Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan]

How lucky we are to live in this time

The first moment in human history

When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean

Recently we've waded a little way out

And the water seems inviting

^Magic is real and a resurrected zombie god from an alternate dimension saved our asses... seems like a perfectly valid concept to me. Now.. the whole talking snake and bush thing was a bit of metaphor to keep the kids entertained. It wasn't talking flora or fauna, but a non-corporeal voice being projected through matter within our dimension via a tiny wormhole. If you create and vibrate a mini inter dimensional wormhole just right, you can produce vibrations and generate vocal resonances within our dimension. Cool stuff if you ask me. But being all powerful, God could have just magically appeared in a human form, but I like his style. The whole dramatic snake and burning bush thing just oozes completely of STYLE. I like it. One cool cat.

>> ^Truth:
I'm not going to die. I'm going to use scientific advances of 21st century to aid my body and rejuvenate cells, so I don't get old. After a while, I will upload my mind and make 1000 backup copies. So, yes, I'm going to live forever. Unless until then a brick falls on my head or something.


Don't forget about the clone machine. Upload the backup copies, into a million fresh bodies, arm them with weapons, take over a small country, then build a space program; Colonize Mars, clone yourself several billion more times, build a fleet of advanced spacecraft, then take over Earth. After that, you have your billions and billions of clones work on a single super mind... an overmind -- then focus your attention on neurobiological and wormhole advancements and send your mind across the universe into other galaxies.

Pretty soon you will rule the galaxy, ascend from your carbon-based bodies and become a god.

It's all pretty simple and outlined in my book.

Ironic how God shows the guy a wormhole to prove their existence.

>> ^Farhad2000:
Current explorations in the DUBSTEP system with adjacent wormhole to DUB.
Probes set up around gravitation pools designated Zomby, Rusko, Easy Star All Stars and The Scientist.
Findings indicate alot of false positives and unfavorable anomalies pollute both systems. Tracking and acquisition is slow and laborious as redundant or ill formed pools are scanned and discarded.

That's always the case. Mostly with electronica. You gotta take the one or two songs you find by an artist and take it for what its worth.

Current explorations in the DUBSTEP system with adjacent wormhole to DUB.

Probes set up around gravitation pools designated Zomby, Rusko, Easy Star All Stars and The Scientist.

Findings indicate alot of false positives and unfavorable anomalies pollute both systems. Tracking and acquisition is slow and laborious as redundant or ill formed pools are scanned and discarded.

>> ^DavidRaine:
You'd think I'd remember this episode. Anyone know which one it is?


I think it's from the 3rd season episode "The Price", the man Troi is talking about is Devinoni Ral, a part Betazoid, Federation negotiator attending a meeting to determine who will purchase the rights to the Barzan wormhole, a supposedly stable wormhole that leads to the Delta Quadrant. Plus Beverly has that terrible 3rd season hairdo.