Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics You aren't even able to have a live conversation with someone in orbit without any delay because of that. Let alone control a Mars rover. Ugh.
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@existentialcomics i mean they did put in the time dilation hack so you technically can, in your own time experience, but then it's fuckin 4058 CE or some shit when you try to go back home
what a fucking kludge
@matildalove @existentialcomics it's a balance patch, so you can't take future tech back and mess up causality
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics honestly... i think it's the only thing keeping us out of harms reach.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics Relativity is proof we don’t live in a simulation: no programmer would want to run a simulation where time ticks were not only nonuniform, but depended on speed and local energy density. It’s all race conditions.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics
I see it more as a pact with the devil: you can get everywhere instantly, but a lot of time would have passed for everyone else. -
@existentialcomics Relativity is proof we don’t live in a simulation: no programmer would want to run a simulation where time ticks were not only nonuniform, but depended on speed and local energy density. It’s all race conditions.
@ThreeSigma @existentialcomics There can't ever be proof cause everything we know bout simulations n programming n such's based on how those work in this universe. For all we know it's really easy'a handle those sorta things in the real world but this universe's simulateda make't look hard. It's also a good counterargument for y the "human batteries wouldn't work cause conservation of energy" argument doesn't really work against the Matrix, cause physics within the Matrix could work differently than physics outside the Matrix (n given the Matrix's designed by machines who'd wanna do everything so humans believe it's not a simulation, it kinda makes sense they would be different, no?)
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics I still think that the Alcubierre Drive does not violate causality. Currently mars is 16 light minutes away and say for shit and giggles your Warp drive can go 16 times as fast as light you still need 2 minutes for a round trip and at no point you traveled backwards in time.
Also thanks to Solitons and some funky math we apparently dont need exotic matter or negative energy for it to work and only prohibitive energy cost(1% of the suns mass per sec.) limit the practicality.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
Cut them some slack. Keeping the whole universe synchronised is tough. Distributed consistency is a hard problem.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics even uncapped you'd need some hell of a shield (there was a recent kurzgesagt)
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Cut them some slack. Keeping the whole universe synchronised is tough. Distributed consistency is a hard problem.
@pseudonym @existentialcomics
This.
I think of it as reality's way of avoiding the CAP theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem -
Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics fwiw I live in a city that has 300,000 restaurants. At three meals per day, it would take me 278 years.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics I never understood the speed of light. Speed is always relative to something. So... how does that work on a galactic scale, with things moving towards each other?
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics The solution, of course, is hax.
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Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics Yes!
I only travel with the speed of darkness
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@ThreeSigma @existentialcomics There can't ever be proof cause everything we know bout simulations n programming n such's based on how those work in this universe. For all we know it's really easy'a handle those sorta things in the real world but this universe's simulateda make't look hard. It's also a good counterargument for y the "human batteries wouldn't work cause conservation of energy" argument doesn't really work against the Matrix, cause physics within the Matrix could work differently than physics outside the Matrix (n given the Matrix's designed by machines who'd wanna do everything so humans believe it's not a simulation, it kinda makes sense they would be different, no?)
@tanith @existentialcomics
1) It was a joke.
2) Of course you can't prove it's not a simulation. It's solipsism. You can't prove that the universe isn't a drug induced hallucination I'm having. You similarly can't prove that we're being fooled by superintellegent beinds and we're just brains in vats.
3) Because it is equivalent with those stupid theories, I think it's a stupid theory. -
Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics
Hard coded magic number bullshit, am I right? -
Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?
It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.
@existentialcomics You're stuck on the material plane. If you go up a couple of dimensions, you can traverse the entire universe with ease.
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@existentialcomics I never understood the speed of light. Speed is always relative to something. So... how does that work on a galactic scale, with things moving towards each other?
@aanee It's an observed fact that the speed of light is the same for everyone, no matter how they're moving. The only way to explain that observation is that the geometry of space and time is not what our everyday experience suggests. Instead of the Euclidean geometry of space alone that we learn in school, it's a Lorentzian geometry of space and time together, where it's *geometrically* impossible to go faster than the speed of light.
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