Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to General Memes & Private Chuckle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 days agoWhatever workslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down12
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minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down1·10 days agoWe take drugs that let us fold space and time.
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·10 days agoSpice is for navigation, not the technology that allows for FTL. You could technically travel without it, but you’d probably be exploded by colliding with something long before you got where you’re going. Assuming you’re talking about spice, of course.
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·10 days agoYou’ll be colliding with every fucking molecule on the “empty” space You need to bend physical spacetime to be able to FTL Else you’ll create something like nuclear/fusion explosions just on your way
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·10 days agoThe tech in dune does fold spacetime, but the spice allows navigators to know where to fold space without causing the collision death.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·10 days ago“Where is the device that speeds or slows the passage of time?” “Under the seat” holds up bong
minus-squareTootSweet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoGuild navigators be like “we fold up reality and fly through space heaven.”
We take drugs that let us fold space and time.
Spice is for navigation, not the technology that allows for FTL. You could technically travel without it, but you’d probably be exploded by colliding with something long before you got where you’re going.
Assuming you’re talking about spice, of course.
You’ll be colliding with every fucking molecule on the “empty” space
You need to bend physical spacetime to be able to FTL
Else you’ll create something like nuclear/fusion explosions just on your way
The tech in dune does fold spacetime, but the spice allows navigators to know where to fold space without causing the collision death.
“Where is the device that speeds or slows the passage of time?”
“Under the seat” holds up bong
Guild navigators be like “we fold up reality and fly through space heaven.”