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[GreatWyrmGold]

Try in your brain; it's nice and close to your brain.

[javierpwn]

Edited my post to show the blood flow controlling as well.....

[GreatWyrmGold]

What is being overlooked here is that we are not powered by the magic powering the golems. We do not know if they can smash tiny bits of them together, it is magic. Same for FTL.

The problem is one of control. Is your control of your body sufficient to twitch a single muscle fiber, let alone control individual cells?
And FTL is impossible by the basic laws of physics.

Edited my post to show the blood flow controlling as well.....

That example is control of the heart, and affects the whole bloodstream at once--not any two given cells. That would be roughly analogous to a galaxy increasing or decreasing its rate of rotation.

Finally, I'd like to again point out: It's going to be easier to make a golem out of air than out of solar systems.

[javierpwn]

What is being overlooked here is that we are not powered by the magic powering the golems. We do not know if they can smash tiny bits of them together, it is magic. Same for FTL.

The problem is one of control. Is your control of your body sufficient to twitch a single muscle fiber, let alone control individual cells?
And FTL is impossible by the basic laws of physics.

Edited my post to show the blood flow controlling as well.....

That example is control of the heart, and affects the whole bloodstream at once--not any two given cells. That would be roughly analogous to a galaxy increasing or decreasing its rate of rotation.

Finally, I'd like to again point out: It's going to be easier to make a golem out of air than out of solar systems.

well...... It is possible for an object to go at the speed of light, if it had a roughly infinite mass....
So to go faster than light, you would have to go
(Mass>infinity)

[Jbg97]

What is being overlooked here is that we are not powered by the magic powering the golems. We do not know if they can smash tiny bits of them together, it is magic. Same for FTL.

The problem is one of control. Is your control of your body sufficient to twitch a single muscle fiber, let alone control individual cells?
And FTL is impossible by the basic laws of physics.

Not the Alcubierre drive.

[CyberUrist]

I love how everyone is just going on a huge tangent about, at first, making huge city-golems, then planetary golems, then galaxial golems, and golems all the way down. Bay12, you crazy.

Also, magic. It doesn't obey the basic laws of physics.

[GreatWyrmGold]

What is being overlooked here is that we are not powered by the magic powering the golems. We do not know if they can smash tiny bits of them together, it is magic. Same for FTL.

The problem is one of control. Is your control of your body sufficient to twitch a single muscle fiber, let alone control individual cells?
And FTL is impossible by the basic laws of physics.

Edited my post to show the blood flow controlling as well.....

That example is control of the heart, and affects the whole bloodstream at once--not any two given cells. That would be roughly analogous to a galaxy increasing or decreasing its rate of rotation.

Finally, I'd like to again point out: It's going to be easier to make a golem out of air than out of solar systems.

well...... It is possible for an object to go at the speed of light, if it had a roughly infinite mass....
So to go faster than light, you would have to go
(Mass>infinity)

To go lightspeed, you would need to apply infinite acceleration, requiring infinite energy. To go beyond lightspeed, you would need to apply greater than infinite acceleration, requiring additional greater than infinite energy.
As "Greater than Infinity" is about as meaningful as "Lower Magnitude than 0," and getting even one infinity of energy is literally impossible, it's safe to say that going greater than lightspeed is impossible.

What is being overlooked here is that we are not powered by the magic powering the golems. We do not know if they can smash tiny bits of them together, it is magic. Same for FTL.

The problem is one of control. Is your control of your body sufficient to twitch a single muscle fiber, let alone control individual cells?
And FTL is impossible by the basic laws of physics.

Not the Alcubierre drive.

Is that the one that screws with space so you technically are moving at sublight despite your surroundings moving past much faster?

[Jbg97]

Yep. The Alcubierre drive is Bay12's most fitting method of travel. To use it, it needs something that doesn't currently exist stretched so thin as to be little thicker than the protons of atoms and spun so fast as to require the equivalent energy of 700 tons. Using it could not only destroy the place from which it leaves, but also the place at which it stops. Still, it's the best we got.

[javierpwn]

Yep. The Alcubierre drive is Bay12's most fitting method of travel. To use it, it needs something that doesn't currently exist stretched so thin as to be little thicker than the protons of atoms and spun so fast as to require the equivalent energy of 700 tons. Using it could not only destroy the place from which it leaves, but also the place at which it stops. Still, it's the best we got.

so effectively, it is a dual location Nuclear WMD

[Remuthra]

Yep. The Alcubierre drive is Bay12's most fitting method of travel. To use it, it needs something that doesn't currently exist stretched so thin as to be little thicker than the protons of atoms and spun so fast as to require the equivalent energy of 700 tons. Using it could not only destroy the place from which it leaves, but also the place at which it stops. Still, it's the best we got.

so effectively, it is a dual location Nuclear WMD

I'm pretty sure it's more like a nuclear WMD strapped to a DeLorean.

[Jbg97]

Yep. The Alcubierre drive is Bay12's most fitting method of travel. To use it, it needs something that doesn't currently exist stretched so thin as to be little thicker than the protons of atoms and spun so fast as to require the equivalent energy of 700 tons. Using it could not only destroy the place from which it leaves, but also the place at which it stops. Still, it's the best we got.

so effectively, it is a dual location Nuclear WMD

Kinetic/Tidal WMD more like. When it leaves, the expanding of space behind it can cause tidal forces to rip objects apart. When it arrives, particles accumulated on the outside of the bubble can be lauched at incredibly high velocities.

[GreatWyrmGold]

How long has it been since exolyx posted in this thread?

[Remuthra]

How long has it been since exolyx posted in this thread?

Around 4 days.

[Jbg97]

How long has it been since exolyx posted in this thread?

Around 4 days.

It shows.

[Aseaheru]

agreed.