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Quarter Ton of Fun !TArEnqOgDc Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:58:00 No.14751383 View View Reply Original Report

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I'm reading up on the Voyager space probes.

I don't know how many of you realize that the Voyager probes are both on the edge of the Heliosphere.

The Heliosphere is where the solar winds of our sun, grow weak enough that they are battered back by intersteller space. Think of it like waves crashing upon a shore. our solar winds are the waves, and the rest of space is the shore.

I can't work it out in my head right now. But I have the...beginnings of what could potentially be some sort of awesome sci-fi concept using the heliosphere. Like... What if outside of he heliosphere, many things that we take for granted are different? The very laws of physics perrhaps? Or what if like Space 1889, there's some sofrt of Ether there. Perhaps in the place that mankind has never actually reached ( yet! ) here is some sort of substance that is condusive to FTL travel.

I'm not sure. All I know is that it's 3am, and I would love hearing about your wierd, incomplete RP/game ideas or hell. Just random meanderings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:03:00 No.14751419 Report

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>Perhaps in the place that mankind has never actually reached ( yet! ) here is some sort of substance that is condusive to FTL travel.

Nope, FTL requires that you break the laws of relativity and time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:05:00 No.14751434 Report

Quoted By: >>14751564

Perhaps its all Mass Effecty where the local speed of light is way higher outside of the sun-bubbles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:20:00 No.14751500 Report

Quoted By: >>14751525 >>14751527

The year is 2124. A joint venture between the most advanced aerospace programs on earth has resulted in a spacefaring mission which involves probing the depths farther than any previous spacecraft. The crewmembers dutifully disappear into the sky in their spacecraft.

Months pass, with regular communication between the crewmembers and Earth occuring in nothing more than a boring tedium of regular reports. Months and months, perhaps years into the mission, all contact with the craft is completely lost from perspective of Earth. The mission is deemed a spectacular failure which results in the scrapping of all other planned 'deep exploration' missions.

From the perspective of the crewmembers of the craft, all communication with Earth abruptly stops. After all options of repair and replacement of equipment, the crew still suspects unusual communcation problems and immediately follows protocol: cut short the remaining portion of the mission and return to Earth.

No response is received as the craft traverses the solar system back toward Earth during the span of months upon months.

On that day the crew finally arrive in orbit around Earth and prepare to land, not a single light shines on the surface of Earth. Upon landing on the flattest bit of dry rockbed that could be found, the crew steps off onto the soil and witnesses the first sunrise ever to be seen by human eyes, for they had been carried by the abyss of space beyond the heliosophere several hundred thousand years in the past.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:25:00 No.14751525 Report

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>>14751500
>spacefaring
i just read it as spacefagging

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:25:00 No.14751527 Report

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>>14751500
I like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:33:00 No.14751564 Report

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>>14751434
Yeah.

No.

Umbrella

Umbrella Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:55:00 No.14751644 Report

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>Shitty writefriendery incoming. I apologize, I'm an amateur, it's 3 AM, and I'm half-watching the royal wedding. Anyway.

The Dralth were, first and foremost, confused. To them, this activity was completely unthinkable, and, of course, unprecedented. They existed solely in what humans called 'deep space'. The great, largely empty void where only a few minutiae of gas particles dared to exist.

They were not a barbaric race, being by and large as intelligent as humans were, as much as beings of energy can be compared to their hyper-dense physical counterparts. But they had, perhaps foolishly, taken it for granted that life existed as a 'consciousness' among waves of energy. Such physically dense places as solar systems were lethal to them, as their wave-forms were incredibly delicate, and though a single stray particle could be dealt with, the trillions upon trillions even in the 'empty' space in solar systems would knock them every which way in such a manner that they might shatter, and simply cease to be what anyone, dense or otherwise, might call alive.

Umbrella

Umbrella Fri 29 Apr 2011 17:55:00 No.14751648 Report

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>>14751644Cont.

So it was with great surprise and trepidation that they realized that the two objects, spinning wildly as they approached, were, for lack of a better phrase, man-made. As the objects drew nearer, their purpose was revealed: as they continued on their path, they emitted energy back to a single point, no doubt their origin. Deep within an area the Dralth could never enter, there was no hope of communicating with whoever, whatever was reaching out into the universe . Doing what they could to avoid the dangerous matter-weapons, such as they were, the Dralth simply continued to be, resigning themselves to a life of anonymity in the eyes of whatever strange beings might be calling out.

All of this happened in microseconds, within an infinitesimally small interval after the two objects broke into the largely empty region outside what humans called the Heliosphere.

Shortly thereafter, as the Voyagers' signals were received, a man in a lab on a planet called 'Earth' let out a long, disappointed breath, echoed by the rest of the room's occupants. “Well, boys, it looks like we're alone after all.”

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 18:04:00 No.14751684 Report

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In Mass Effect humans built a big ass space station to study theories on faster then light travel that might be workable beyond the heliopluse.

In Vorpal Blade, there are gravitational "eddies" along the heloipluse around stars that need to be mapped to navigate safely.

As far as what it is like out there? We don't know. Humans have never been able to experiment on it directly, and our observations of extrasolar space are limited to the effects a mostly empty void has on viable objects. Most visible objects are stars, ex-stars or things orbiting stars. Nebula are the only real exosolar objects we can look at.

So yes, things could work differently out there. They could be some kind of warped or difference space where gravity doesn't work the same, explaining the irregularities of our observations vs how we know gravity works around our yellow sun. (A problem currently solved with "dark matter")

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 18:04:00 No.14751686 Report

Quoted By: >>14751691 >>14751715

By random chance, an ameteur astronomer discovers a faint signal in night sky. Excited by the prospect of having discovered a new kind of pulsar or quasar like object, he dutifully records the signal.

To his utter astonishment, he finds a pattern, followed shortly by the discovery that it is seemingly repeating continuously. He spends years of dedicated work studying and analyzing the signals, slowly gaining more data.

A sudden breakthrough makes plain the fact that the signal is not a natural peculiarity, but a fashioned signal crafted by some kind of intelligence. Though he can not translate a message, whether the effects of the universe hampered him or the mind of its creator was simply unknowable to human intelligence, he is convinced he has found truth.

He finally reveals his life's work to the world and, for a moment, the world is given pause. The critics doubt him, the arrogantly educated elite snub his discovery as mistaken or misguided, but the everyman seems to be swayed.

A new golden era of discovery and interest in the cosmos follows. Government after government slowly comes to terms with implications and humanity begins to see the need to, at long last, unite as a species.

The scientist is remembered as the Newton of his day, the harbinger of a new dawn of humanity. The greatest man to ever live, who led Earth down it's first toddling steps to join the community of the galaxy. Though he would die long before a human ever passed from the realm of Sol, though even his grandchildren would never live long enough to learn what mysteries lie beyond the Oort cloud, his name was the one cheered through every step.

At long last, thousands of years after the first discovery of the signal, another young scientist makes another discovery. He had managed to stumble upon and break the strange encryption of the alien transmission. He sees the dream of his childhood take shape.

"We can hear you. We wish to meet you."

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 18:04:00 No.14751691 Report

Quoted By: >>14751715

>>14751686
His hands move faster than his mind. He knows victory is to be his. In a flurry of mental activity he boldly finishes the transmission in its entirety. He has deciphered the undecipherable.

He reads the transmission.

"We can hear you. We wish to meet you. We are the Humans of Earth. We are young, but we will learn. We are brash, but we can be taught. We will someday find you."

He takes it in.

The ancient transmission, the mystery and focus of centuries, was the very response the first scientist had sent out into space, in vain hope it would someday reach the mysterious senders.

The young scientist reflected, it had been a stunning success.

Umbrella

Umbrella Fri 29 Apr 2011 18:09:00 No.14751715 Report

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>>14751686
>>14751691

So... the original signal was a response to itself?

I can't decide if that's brilliant or really, really dumb. I'm leaning towards the former. Nicely done, in any case.

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