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MemberOvomorphAug-08-2012 7:21 AMit's on the technical page of weyland's website, FTL or Faster Than Light Travel - a sorta important thing to mention in the movie, surely, but I don't remember ONE WORD of FTL-ness.
Anyway, is it 1.01*c or 1,000,00*c? Anybody have a tech spec?
Yeah, I know it's just a film but... tachyons? Or?
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MemberOvomorphAug-08-2012 9:13 AMnice, thanks for that LOL moment,
now, back to my thread, 1.01c or 1,000,000c?
or something else?
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asphaltpilot
MemberOvomorphAug-08-2012 8:19 AMJoke:
The bartender says, "We don't serve tachyons here." A tachyon walks into a bar.
David 1
MemberOvomorphAug-08-2012 11:53 AMSomething else. Haven't you been watching the Olympics?
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]
Matze
MemberOvomorphAug-09-2012 4:48 AMNo, there is nothing said about traveling at lightspeed in the theatrical version (maybe in DVD extended version which is perhaps half an our longer). The only thing you can hear nearly at the end is that the "Prometheus" uses ion drives.
So here are some facts I collected: the moon where this all happens is located in "Zeta Reticuly" star system (Ridley Scott said this in one of those teasers/trailers). Zeta Reticuly is 39 light years or 12,1 parsecs distant from earth. They started their journey in 2089 and arrived in 2093. That means they must have been traveling with a speed nearly 10 times faster then light, in figures: 3 Million kilometres per second. I cannot imagine mankind to invent a power source needed for that during the next 80 years.
But perhaps they used a black hole and navigated through a gap in space-time...
Tokyokid
MemberOvomorphAug-09-2012 6:56 AMWe have the time, 2.5 years.
Tell me the distance, and the speed should be easy to determine.
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MemberOvomorphAug-10-2012 1:40 AM@Matze - exactly, that was my point. At least in Star Trek (for example) they visually pulled out of HyperSpace at some point.
The way the P R O M E T H E U S was introduced, it was like it had always been travelling through space like that, you know, rather than POPPING HERE AND THERE as and FTL static event.
Remember in FTL there'd be NO ACCELERATION and that might as well mean NO MOVEMENT from a spaceship at all. An FTL event has to PIGGYBACK onto some higher dimensional tachyon or something. Right?
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Matze
MemberOvomorphAug-10-2012 11:45 AMWe are talking in theoretic models, of course and therefore I hoped they'd say something, only a few words, how they managed that distance problem in the movie. Nothing. Instead there are holes in the plot - i.e. Vickers says "I wouldn't travel 800 Million miles to do this" (having sex with the captain). That would mean, they did not even leave our system?
If we believe Einstein, reaching the point of light speed (299000 km/s) is not possible. And if you try to do, you'll pass a so called event horizon and enter another dimension of space-time - where you possibly never come out again by yourself. So if they would have been traveling only NEAR light speed, the journey would have lasted indeed 39 years ...
I find the idea of folding space more realistic, that means you jump from one point of the universe to another point right at the same time, loosing no time at all. This has something to do with gravitation or gravitons.
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