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Is It Feasible To Colonize Another Planet With Today's Technology?
Neil Black
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October 2006
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Keep in mind that I know nothing about how Rugby is played.

Matt Smith
Member #783
November 2000

It was invented at Rugby School (where Tom Brown was tortured in the eponymous novel) by a scrophulous youth who flagrantly flouted the Laws Of Association Football by picking the ball up and carrying it over the opposing team's goal line. The youth was of course immediately whipped, tattooed and exiled to The Colonies, but the Games Masters were intrigued by the potential carnage if all the boys were made to fight hand-to-hand for possession of the ball, and so they devised a game with an egg-shaped ball, involving martial arts and police-dog training, which has spawned a variety of derivatives that are enjoyed by the worldwide sado-masochistic community today.

Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001

And to honour that, the American version of the game was called football?

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Michael Jensen
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October 2002
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America has rugby?

We must. My current female-fix, who happens to be a physics major, oddly enough, is on UW's rugby team -- I'm not sure if we have a national league or even a college league, I just know that UW has a women's rugby team.

Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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Small radius centrifugal force can give you motion sickness due to the high rate of rotation required. The fluid in the vestibular system (used to detect falling over) will rotate along with the space station and all is well. But if you rotate your head to look 90 degrees away, the rotation is out of phase, and you get sick just like you'd stopped spinning to get dizzy.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I have lost all faith in humanity. Again. Someone suggested Saturn to me as a possible colonization site. She did not realize Saturn is a gas giant. I cry for her. :'(

piccolo
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January 2003
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i have lost faith in humans a long time ago.

http://www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/planets5.htm

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axilmar
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April 2001

The real stepping stone to space is anti-gravity. Without it, nothing is really feasible.

Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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I would think some form of enertial dampers would be more usefull. You can always just create a long ship and spin it end over end, and deal with any dizyness ;)

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Kikaru
Member #7,616
August 2006
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From the known laws of physics, anti gravity is impossible. What if, say, gravity could be manipulated? Slingshot effect for ships in orbit, all kinds of things.

Still pretty Sci-fi. What we need is an archology.

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