lzim

o. still missing backlight, especially glowing traces on the touchpad.
x. rage smashing it isn't an option. :[

@The Truth Hurts about bridges and tunnels (rofl)

why would this be a problem if the things wheels are already skinny? lower the tracks it sits in and it benefits from the high ground clearance. Obviously you'd want to avoid rolling down into deeper tracks while there are cars underneath...

Luggages only problem with time-dilation for relativistic travel is having mentioned the distance of 25LY. That won't get us very far, not unless we're sending out ships to create relays for much faster travel between our solar system and solar system beta.

If the trip for the crew is 25 years and they need to sleep through it (silly considering they can work through that time, but only if their ship is equipped to keep they alive and functional during the trip), meaning a sleeper ship is meant to minimized the power needed to keep the crew alive almost regardless of the length of the trip, but again, if for the crew 25 years have passed, for the rest of the universe many more years would have passed, hundreds, thousands of years. During that time the rest of civilization would have presumably improved on drive tech and colonized most of the distance the sleeper ship was meant to travel.

As far as I remember we're should be looking into colonizing the best worlds within a 500LY region of space. So practically speaking once we get going in the 98+ percent of light speed, it won't take that long to start propagating out. Consider it something similar to the industrial revolution or exploration of the new world. Once we start travelling, it'll be a snowball effect towards colonizing all those planets in our local region of the galaxy. You can read some colony fiction like the Commonwealth series for some idea of what would happen to society once those first ships are sent out.

http://spaces.msn.com/lzimspace/photos/

album= My area_yes my camera sucks indoors..

i may be too late for consideration but i thought i'd ref my setup anyway.

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have to say mike s has a pretty laughable setup honestly.