User Information

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length

AvPGalaxy News

Statistics

1,603,960 Posts in 26,073 Topics
by 17,316 Members
Latest Member: clarice

Author Topic: Hypersleep  (Read 1311 times)

Predator890

  • Anytime
  • *
  • Posts: 5
Re: Hypersleep
« Reply #30 on: Aug 10, 2012, 03:53:04 PM »
They made it because space travel is very long and the crew would probably die of old age without it. Halo has them too.

ScardyFox

  • Colonial Marine
  • ****
  • Posts: 3,208
Re: Hypersleep
« Reply #31 on: Aug 10, 2012, 10:44:01 PM »
...which is why I keep asking would the Ion Drive actually be considered FTL?
The star travel in Aliens has always been so nebulous.
- Ion Drive Engine would be "travel as fast as possible in space". But will never be equal to speed of light.
- FTL would be "bending the universe". Draw 2 points on a paper and bend it to join those points. Same principle would be used in FTL. How ? Don't know, maybe by using dark matter or dark energy ?

Space folding? Thats way beyond anything we have seen in the Aliens universe. I honestly don't think an answer to this will ever manifest, lol.

PrimitifAlien

  • Super Facehugger
  • **
  • Posts: 153
Re: Hypersleep
« Reply #32 on: Aug 11, 2012, 01:19:29 AM »
Like said Aliennaire, you can't travel faster than light, even reaching almost this speed with our standards would be a tremendous, incredible thing, but still much TOO slow for Nostromo for example.
So FTL is needed but is a fictionnal thing, at least for the time being. Space folding..I could have talked about creating wormholes.

Quote from: Predator890
link=topic=44767.msg1457952#msg1457952 date=1344613984
They made it because space travel is very long and the crew would probably die of old age without it.

The main problem with not using cryochambers would be consuming food etc..for nothing, they better hypersleep than wasting it. Dying of old age in Alien films is not an issue but travelling with ships like Nostromo and getting ..years older just for a worktravel is surely one for the crew.

ScardyFox

  • Colonial Marine
  • ****
  • Posts: 3,208
Re: Hypersleep
« Reply #33 on: Aug 11, 2012, 06:54:51 PM »
Yes I agree. Without some kind of true FTL its simply not going to work. Unless of course we uproot our entire civilization and sleep away the eons as we move planet to planet.  e.e

180924609

  • Space Trucker
  • **
  • Posts: 485
  • AgnusDei qui tollis peccata mundi dona nobis pacem
Re: Hypersleep
« Reply #34 on: Aug 11, 2012, 10:49:16 PM »
Yes I agree. Without some kind of true FTL its simply not going to work. Unless of course we uproot our entire civilization and sleep away the eons as we move planet to planet.  e.e

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a few great stories about this subject. 'The Songs of Distant Earth' sticks in my mind as the best - even had a space ark called 'Magellan'! I honestly cant think of any recent Hollywood sci-fi movie that has attempted to tackle this subject, which surprises me...

Enter Jon Spaihts! 'Passengers' adds a great twist to the lifetime interstellar journey idea.

I read the 'Passengers' script last year and loved it! That movie needs to be made - now!

 

Copyright AvPGalaxy © 2002-2013. All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer. Contact Info. Hosted on Fan Sites Network - Privacy Policy - DMCA