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Time travel 'possible, not economical'

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Building a time machine that travels into the future is not science fiction - if you are a multi-trillionaire, a physics expert says.

Dr Craig Savage, who lectures in relativity and quantum mechanics at the Australian National University, said it was possible for people to travel forward in time but the costs involved were too great.

"If you could build a spaceship that could go three quarters of the speed of light you would time travel one hour into the future for every hour of your time," he said.

"People have designed such spacecrafts at various times but they would just be unimaginably expensive to create.

"It's not an issue of technology, it's one of economics."

The cost of operating a time travelling machine, in relation to the cost of electricity, would be ten trillion dollars, Dr Savage estimates.

"We are talking vasts amounts of wealth that would be involved in doing this, Bill Gates could not even consider this."

Dr Savage said that due to the cost, not the science, people will not be travelling through time in the foreseeable future.

"If an individual was going to time travel into the future they would have to have enough wealth to spend on this that was the same amount as 10 years of Australia's GDP," he said.

"The question is when will individuals be that wealthy? Certainly not in our lifetime."

Dr Savage said people who might be able to muster the resources for time travel in the future would be so advanced they would be unrecognisable.

"It's hard to imagine what the future would be like where something like time travel into the future would be economically feasible.

"It would be an utterly different kind of world that we live in at the moment.

"This kind of question takes science to the limits."

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When NOT to feed the Kangaroos

Need Work

Hey wanna join the pen15 club?

Something to think about.

Pants

Friends

Watch for Ice

Think of a Headline

Blood Diamond

Albino Koala

How much do you love your coffee?

Reality TV gone too far.

I think I'm gonna die out here 'cuz there's nothing.

• AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD CONTESTANT
• on
  the controversial reality show "Kid Nation", in which children ages
  8-15 are left to fend for themselves in a New Mexico ghost town

Love-Stoned

Mistaken

Thank you ... Doctor

http://nirvanamusing.blogspot.com/2007/09/thank-you-doctor.html

Awwwwww

Quite a Rich/Poor Divide

5 Things You SHould Never Say to a Woman

Click link for an expansion of the phrases.

Forbidden Phrase #1: "Relax."
Forbidden Phrase #2: "I love you." (During a fight)
Forbidden Phrase #3: "It's up to you." (A.K.A. "Whatever you want to do is fine with me.")
Forbidden Phrase #4: "You knew I was this way when you married me."
Forbidden Phrase #5: (Nothing)

Rare Chinese Monkey Picked Tea

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/09/16/rare-chinese-monkey-picked-tea/

Legend says that over ten centuries ago, upon seeing his master pick
tea leaves, a monkey climbed up and collected the leaves and brought
them down for his master.

Whether it be legend or simply a cheaper form of labor, the story
has turned into a rare product that you can purchase and enjoy.

Monkey Picked Tea is a rare tea that is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain region of China.

It is claimed that none of the monkeys are mistreated or harmed in this
process. They say that the monkeys are treated as respected members of
their family.

This is a real book?

Fuel the hate against Lawyers

Message for Bush

Disturbing

Punctuation is Everything

Ignorance, thy name is Quentin

There is a quote from Tarantino making its way around the internet that has him telling The Sun, "They were trying to get me to do one. I haven't even seen the f***ing show. What the f*** is Heroes?" Ah tact, thy name is Quentin.

Blogworthy.

I wonder what the moral question here is...

Thinking of planing a picnic?

Try these tips that I thought of recently...

A picnic basket filled with plates, utensils (don't forget
the bottle/can opener and corkscrew), cups, plastic containers and napkins are
recommended. Pack trash bags to carry away any disposables.

Line the bottom of your picnic basket with a towel or plastic
to catch any spillage along the way.

Carry sunscreen, insect repellent and extra clothing layers.
You never know when you'll need them.

• Bags
  for rubbish
• Cutlery
• Cups
  and drinks
• Water?
• Juice?
• Bowls
  – spoons (dishes) – dessert
• Food:
  lettuce, tomato, cucumber, - cutting plate
• Ham,
  salami, tuna cans, turkey
• Cheese
• Butter
  and knife
• Rolls
  or bread
• Baby
  spinach
• Rug/blanket
  to sit on
• Chocolate?
• Chips?
  (red rock deli is always good)
• Tiramisu…
• Strawberries,
  berries… other fruits
• Don't forget to check the Weather!
  

Sleep

I once read somewhere that technology has a strong effect on the amount of sleep we, as humans, get. And when you think about it, you can see that it makes sense.

In the 1800s, or even earlier, you can imagine that since electricity wasn't invented, households got darker a lot quicker and the traditional oil lamps could only really do so much. In this case, you can understand that people would be sleeping a lot earlier, since they wouldn't be able to do much past sunset.

Eventually, lights became invented, and the sleeping hours became shorter and shorter.

Social embodiments also become influential such as MSN and Facebook become reasons to keep us later and later into the night.

Eventually other very tasteful distractions lend themselves to keeping you up to the early hours of the morning sunrise.

So, why am I talking about this?

Actually, I've begun writing this and now, perhaps due to a lack of sleep, I don't even know what message I'm trying to put across.

Say NO to Britney

It'll never happen. Nah. It could've, but it won't.

• Music producer TIMBALAND
• on
  collaborating with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Timbaland said
  he approached Spears about working together, but she rejected the offer

An Epiphany

You Can't see me.

The Coconut Crab

I'm no pansy, but I might get a little freaked out if I saw this on the footpath.
Admit it. You would cry like a little girl, too.

Ever listened to french music?

You should.

Try

Quatre Mots sur un piano - Patrick Fiori

You can just search that in Limewire or whatever P2P program you use. Quite an enchanting song.

The Song Title translates loosely to something like 'four words on a piano'

Frankey.

Finally the Break

I've made a resolution.

I'm going to be writing more in this blog, as opposed to just posting interesting pictures.

So keep an eye out all you 6,000 readers.

Frankey.

Rayna Brown Looks Like Elton John