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Date Posted: 18:35:20 05/27/03 Tue
Author: Ghanima
Subject: OK guy
In reply to: Crysknife 's message, "Ghanima" on 17:57:53 05/27/03 Tue

It's nice that you have done the calcs, I wish you had put some average distances and assumptions about inhabitable planets in there, but it's all good.
If humans traveled at the speeds you suggested it would take a very long time to get anywhere, meaning that these ships would have to be equipped to support several generations of humans. Communication would be extremely slow. At this point you're not really fitting in with the Dune universe.
I think you missed my point about *assuming* that faster than light travel is possible. Its science fiction (fiction being NOT NECESSARILY FACT.) However, News Flash: no one has proved that it isn't. Yes, there are equations that point to this theory, but all you have to do is compare Newton to Einstein and you can see that maybe our math could stand some improvement.
Also I guess you haven't read BJ, because Dune is inhabited long before Cenva happens along.
And why shouldn't humans have warships that can compete with the ships that machines have? They could defend planets or solar systems, and be transported in other ships equipped to travel the longer distances.
But, to stick to the thread that I was responding to originally, do you not agree that the human fear of thinking machines helps add a great deal of importance to the spice in a universe that already has interstellar travel?

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Well... -- Crysknife, 21:28:00 05/27/03 Tue
- Let's see, it's accepted, it makes sense, it fits, it's canon you are wrong, and that's it. (NT) -- IDAHO, 00:43:11 05/28/03 Wed
  - baahaaaaaah <-- that's supposed to be sheep sounds (NT) -- theButterfly, 14:15:47 05/28/03 Wed
  - it's not accepted by me, it doesn't fit, I don't consider it canon and most of all it doesn't make sense. Peace. (NT) -- Crysknife, 15:02:42 05/28/03 Wed
    - Well you are in the minority, which kinda makes it canon. (NT) -- IDAHO, 18:17:00 05/28/03 Wed
      - If you accept the abomination then you can call it canon. Time will tell if I stay in the minority. (NT) -- Crysknife, 20:29:51 05/28/03 Wed
        This is my last post, but you call it abomination, I call it "pre-born"!!!!!!! (NT) -- IDAHO, 00:48:26 05/29/03 Thu
        Just as Alia was a pre-born and an abomination, so is the B.Jihad!!!!....This is fun! (NT) -- Crysknife, 13:13:42 05/29/03 Thu
        okay, so I lied, but Ghanima and Leto II weren't abonimation and neither is BJ. (NT) -- IDAHO, 13:21:25 05/29/03 Thu