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Old 03-03-2004, 04:38 PM
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Alien Propulsion system

How do you think that alien space ships propel themselves though space? If they exist, but am asuming they do. I have heard that they use a system of strong magnets and align them in a way that it will create a strong gravitational pull infront of thier ship. They aim three magnetic rods to a point infront of the ship, thus causing a gravitational force to form infront of the ship, causing the ship to be pulled toward that point. It would be like putting a bowling ball on your bed and pushing your fist into the bed. The bowling ball would move toward your fist. I am amazed that there has not been more experiments done with magnets in order to advance our society. The only break thru in magnetic research is when they invented the magnetic train that goes like 300 miles per hour. I think that the future will yield a great deal of magnetic research and discoveries.
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

Magnetism has very little to do with gravity. And even with magnetics, if you put a magnet at the end of a pole with something ferrous near it, it wouldnt go anywhere becasue the force of the magnet pulling on the object is exactly balanced by the force of the object pushing on the pole.
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

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I think they use Premium unleaded.
To go across the Universe?? No, I'm thinkin diesel...
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

No, regular unleaded. It's obvious only a rotary motor could be the key to space travel.
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

With an Allison 8 speed transmission...
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But it's not economical... the diesel gets the best mileage....
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

ok to get back to the seriousness. i think it would work like a particle accelerater where you turn the magnets on and off. or like a rail gun where you put a piece of metal in and the magnets shoots it off.
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Re: Re: Alien Propulsion system

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ok to get back to the seriousness. i think it would work like a particle accelerater where you turn the magnets on and off. or like a rail gun where you put a piece of metal in and the magnets shoots it off.

Well sure, that's the basic principle of rockets; shoot out a bunch of stuff out the back, and according to newtwons law of every action has an equal an opposite reation, the rocket moves forward. Problem is, one can only go a certain speed with that, which is much less than the speed of light. Even at the speed of light, our aliens would have to be travelling a looooong time to get anywhere.
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Where the hell do you come up with these questions?
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

But what would a magnet do in space, shoot magnetism? That's not how magnets work!
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

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Where the hell do you come up with these questions?
True that. Somebodies getting stoned...

I was having a discussing with a classmate the other day on the theory that there has to be other aliens out there that have some kind of equivilent of a car. We also theorized that those aliens probably had some equivilent to alcohol or some other type of dehabilitating drug. Then we thought there has to be an alien equivelent to a D.W.I. Then we theorized that we were theorizing too much. Whatever....

Duh, don't these idiots know all aliens use warp drive?

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Re: Re: Alien Propulsion system

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ok to get back to the seriousness. i think it would work like a particle accelerater where you turn the magnets on and off. or like a rail gun where you put a piece of metal in and the magnets shoots it off.
wouldn't work like that though.

the magnets on say a railgun are mounted to a non moving object (i.e. the gun) and are used to accelerate the projectile.

for an alien spacecraft the spacecraft is the one moving (i.e. the projectile.) what are the magnets to be mounted to to move it? you can't mount them to the spacecraft itself. that just won't work.
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So you guys dont think it is possible to create a gravitational force infront of a space ship? I mean it could be generated with something other than magnets or something. I think it will probably be with those new elements that we are creating. Unatanium, which only exists for less than a second before degrading. If we were able to harness these new elements and figure out how to use them maybe they would have some great purpose. Im just hypothetically asking.
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Re: Alien Propulsion system

well, there's a reason they last for fractions of a second...

I like to think of it this way: What if there really ARE hundreds of other planets with intelligent life such as ours, or even more advanced, but there was just no way in the universe to travel faster than the speed of light,
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