NASA to Launch Third Person Shooter.
May. 13th, 2010 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyFile this under "crazy old NASA:"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7695994/Largest-scientific-instrument-ever-built-to-prove-Einsteins-theory-of-general-relativity.html
NASA plans to launch three spacecraft, send them millions of miles away from one another and then have them fire lasers at each other.
I read this and thought, Reagan's demented dreams of SDI are realized at last! I should start penning my Rock Opera "Welfare Queens of the Space Laser Age" now!
And then I read on and realized that the lasers are harmless "science lasers" and the idea is to "prove" the Theory of Relativity.
Sounds like an awfully large investment to me not to be including actual functional death rays. "Why?" is what you are certainly wondering. (No really you are wondering "Why?") I will TELL you why (I am sorry if you were NOT wondering "Why?" because I will tell you anyway.) (Grammar tells me that I need a colon because this is a delimitered list, to this I say, "WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD GRAMMAR? SURELY LOLCATS KILLED YOU?" Nope, so here is your damn colon. Happy?) :
1) We will need to spend the money and time to get the satellites up and out there. It's gonna be something like hella1 bazillion2 megabucks. And we will have to wait like a decade for them to get out there far enough. By then my popcorn will be cold!
2) If successful, we will need to reprint all science texts to have them refer to the corrected "LAW of Relativity," and we will need to issue citations to people when they violate the new law (Laws were made to be broken.) There will also probably need to be some "relativity task force," which has it's own problems.
Citizen: "Officer, that man's envoking Bell's inequality! Shouldn't we DO something? Next they will make suppositions that violate the LAW OF RELATIVITY."
Relativity Force Commando: "Eh, depends."
Damn I am funny.
1 "Hella" is soon to be a scientific number meaning 10 to the 27th power, or 10 with 27 zeros.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/03/hella-way-to-describe-massive.html
2 "Bazillion Megabucks" is an indefinite or fictional number used to mean "Hella Benjamins, Yo."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7695994/Largest-scientific-instrument-ever-built-to-prove-Einsteins-theory-of-general-relativity.html
NASA plans to launch three spacecraft, send them millions of miles away from one another and then have them fire lasers at each other.
I read this and thought, Reagan's demented dreams of SDI are realized at last! I should start penning my Rock Opera "Welfare Queens of the Space Laser Age" now!
And then I read on and realized that the lasers are harmless "science lasers" and the idea is to "prove" the Theory of Relativity.
Sounds like an awfully large investment to me not to be including actual functional death rays. "Why?" is what you are certainly wondering. (No really you are wondering "Why?") I will TELL you why (I am sorry if you were NOT wondering "Why?" because I will tell you anyway.) (Grammar tells me that I need a colon because this is a delimitered list, to this I say, "WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD GRAMMAR? SURELY LOLCATS KILLED YOU?" Nope, so here is your damn colon. Happy?) :
1) We will need to spend the money and time to get the satellites up and out there. It's gonna be something like hella1 bazillion2 megabucks. And we will have to wait like a decade for them to get out there far enough. By then my popcorn will be cold!
2) If successful, we will need to reprint all science texts to have them refer to the corrected "LAW of Relativity," and we will need to issue citations to people when they violate the new law (Laws were made to be broken.) There will also probably need to be some "relativity task force," which has it's own problems.
Citizen: "Officer, that man's envoking Bell's inequality! Shouldn't we DO something? Next they will make suppositions that violate the LAW OF RELATIVITY."
Relativity Force Commando: "Eh, depends."
Damn I am funny.
1 "Hella" is soon to be a scientific number meaning 10 to the 27th power, or 10 with 27 zeros.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/03/hella-way-to-describe-massive.html
2 "Bazillion Megabucks" is an indefinite or fictional number used to mean "Hella Benjamins, Yo."
