Message from @JadenFrostwolf

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2018-01-10 01:06:23 UTC  

the surface is basically unform, and completely useless for growing things

2018-01-10 01:06:31 UTC  

Now I'm becoming a bit less of an armchair expert in Materials Science via my brother since he's studying that for his Ph.D.

2018-01-10 01:06:42 UTC  

I find Mat.Sci. harder to understand than nuclear power

2018-01-10 01:07:46 UTC  

I wonder if comets are a viable use for space travel. Just land on one and have it take you places.

2018-01-10 01:08:16 UTC  

@CreativeRealms I believe NASA has proposed that for research expeditions

2018-01-10 01:09:01 UTC  

It’s pretty logical. Also you could mine them and build ships out of it (maybe).

2018-01-10 01:09:06 UTC  

First you have to stay on one.

2018-01-10 01:09:19 UTC  

Also, are the structural stable enough to ride?

2018-01-10 01:09:25 UTC  

Basically, get out of Earth orbit, land on a comet, and use that to get closer to your objective before leaving again

2018-01-10 01:09:50 UTC  

Just don't get too close to a star or your ride melts

2018-01-10 01:09:51 UTC  

@Grenade123 In theory, any comet should be structurally stable enough to ride. The only trick would be attaching to it for the ride

2018-01-10 01:10:06 UTC  

Oh, and picking one big enough

2018-01-10 01:11:33 UTC  

I think we need to get a science channel in here

2018-01-10 01:11:45 UTC  

I think we need to get some more scientists in here too

2018-01-10 01:11:54 UTC  

I would love that

2018-01-10 01:11:54 UTC  

That way we aren't just speculating on everything

2018-01-10 01:12:44 UTC  

Hey, if politicians can make legislation on this stuff being less informed than us, why can't we speculate?

2018-01-10 01:12:44 UTC  

About the only things I can speak with authority on are programming and nuclear power (again, thanks to my "armchair expert" status)

2018-01-10 01:13:13 UTC  

And even in programming, I acknowledge there are languages I know basically nothing about

2018-01-10 01:13:36 UTC  

My armchair experience comes from way too much science and discovery channel.

2018-01-10 01:13:45 UTC  

I don't really have the authority to speak on anything.

2018-01-10 01:13:49 UTC  

And personal interest in the topics

2018-01-10 01:14:29 UTC  

@Revan what's your native programming languages?

2018-01-10 01:14:43 UTC  

We can combine stuff you know about with stuff you don’t know about. Nuclear powered rocket ships.

2018-01-10 01:15:44 UTC  

There is a drive idea based around firing nukes to use as propulsion

2018-01-10 01:15:46 UTC  

The university I went to for Computer Science started with C and C++, then moved on to Java. Since graduating, I've worked mainly with Java and Javascript (I'm most qualified as a web developer nowadays)

2018-01-10 01:16:16 UTC  

I also know enough of the following to be "dangerous": Lisp, Erlang, Ada, FORTRAN

2018-01-10 01:16:39 UTC  

Oh, and Groovy and Kotlin

2018-01-10 01:16:45 UTC  

Oof Fortran

2018-01-10 01:16:48 UTC  

but those are just Java with nicer syntax

2018-01-10 01:16:52 UTC  

I started with java in highschool. Uni did C/C++, and I'm a c# developer now.

2018-01-10 01:17:11 UTC  

@Revan Kotlin and groovy are far from "Java with nicer syntax"

2018-01-10 01:17:16 UTC  

I know none of those things.

2018-01-10 01:17:17 UTC  

I've looked into C# on occasion, but the companies I've worked for haven't been that big into C#

2018-01-10 01:17:22 UTC  

With some web development as I know JavaScript, just not great

2018-01-10 01:17:34 UTC  

@ping I know there's more to it than that, but they're both supersets of Java

2018-01-10 01:17:48 UTC  

Any valid Java code is also valid Groovy/Kotlin code

2018-01-10 01:17:52 UTC  

C# has only really started to take off recently now that the .net framework is going cross platform

2018-01-10 01:18:04 UTC  

just like C++ is just a superset of C

2018-01-10 01:18:20 UTC  

And Microsoft is making things more open source

2018-01-10 01:18:25 UTC  

C++ isnt a superset of C though