Interplanetary Superhighway 241
rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science magizine contains the article "Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway - 'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the planets, their moons, and a
host of other destinations as well. But unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a very long time to get there."
Of course it takes a very long time....... (Score:5, Funny)
There's a bulldozer outside my house (Score:5, Funny)
time for publishers to start... (Score:5, Funny)
Seven Rules For Spotting Bogus Science (Score:5, Funny)
Uh yeah... (Score:1, Funny)
Gravity Hitchhiking, Pure and Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Now if only I could get a free ride to the Midwest or East Coast this way.
yes, it takes a long time. (Score:5, Funny)
Ok... it's a friday night... I'm sitting at home, with nothing better to do than try and be a smartass on slashdot... Oh lord, I've wasted my life...
It'll Never Pan Out... (Score:5, Funny)
This Reminds me of Doug Adams (Score:3, Funny)
We have one person to thank for this... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh they had better not.... (Score:2, Funny)
Bend space (Score:1, Funny)
Space-folding technology is still a work in progress, though.
Re:It'll Never Pan Out... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh the taxes (Score:5, Funny)
Where's my towel?!?!? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:There's a bulldozer outside my house (Score:1, Funny)
Wait a minute... how long? (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, those gravitational speed ups are slowing down the planet! Eventually, we'll suck up so much momentum to cause the earth to stop revolving around the sun, and we'll burn up!
Act now to fight the destruction of our gravitational resources!
Home? (Score:5, Funny)
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
I am truly sorry for that one...
Where's LTOOL? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There's a bulldozer outside my house (Score:4, Funny)
oh dear (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Am I the only one who finds this redundant?!?! =P
Calculations are much easier than you think-STNG (Score:1, Funny)
Using this, the Next Generation writers could tell how many more times they could use the "Caught in a time loop" plot device.
Re:There's a bulldozer outside my house (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Home On Lagrange (Score:4, Funny)
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved.
(chorus)
We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
And a kilogram weighs half a pound.
(chorus)
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough wrench.
(chorus)
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!
(chorus)
CHORUS:
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
--Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)
© 1978 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm
http://www.jamesoberg.com/humor.html [jamesoberg.com]
(from very bottom of page)
Re:Home? (Score:1, Funny)
Solar power provides Earth with juice.
Power beams are sublime, so nobody will mind
If we cook an occasional goose.
Where credit is due: Bill Higgins & Barry Gehm, "Home on LaGrange"
Interplanetary SuperHighway (Score:2, Funny)
Cant we just walk? (Score:3, Funny)