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To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-09-25 19:40:00

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Welcome to Traveler Research HQ

Bi-monthly, the research teams will meet altogether to discuss recent discoveries, compare notes, and perhaps cause unintended mischief. All research team members are welcome to attend and to give their input. While it's expected that each member will want to talk amongst their own team, they are welcome to join the conversations going on at other tables.

OOC Information

These semi-weekly posts are for IC third-person comment war opportunities, to help encourage conversation and potential arguments. Starter topics will be provided below to help you. Threads are also welcome, but should be separate from the topics provided below. Threads or comment wars that extend to 10 total good-sized comments can be counted for activity check. If you have any questions, please let Ashley know. The hope is that you will use this opportunity for topical development that can lead to further plots.

P.S. No one is expecting anyone to be physics geniuses. Feel free to make stuff up as you go along.

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	Table 3 boldlygomod 2017-09-26 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Ambassador Spock’s notes include something called the Slingshot Effect, a time travel method that requires moving in towards a sun as full warp, using the sun’s gravity to sling shot into an artificial time warp. Could this help any of our travelers? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nottorpedotech 2017-09-26 02:48 am UTC (link)
	This is perhaps one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard. I can't believe Spock of all people—young or old—would ever document such a thing. If older me from that other timeline was present, I would not have approved. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 02:54 am UTC (link)
	It's. it that different from a theory I was working on when I accidentally made a wormhole, actually. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottorpedotech 2017-09-26 02:56 am UTC (link)
	You accidentally made a wormhole? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 02:57 am UTC (link)
	Yup. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottorpedotech 2017-09-26 02:57 am UTC (link)
	You know, I actually don't have anything to say to that. At least usually when we do something stupid, we do it on purpose. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 03:13 am UTC (link)
	Well, I was trying to get man out further than we'd been before. Technically it worked. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 04:30 am UTC (link)
	Speak for yourself, Doctor. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottorpedotech 2017-09-26 05:35 am UTC (link)
	I suppose by "we" I meant Jim. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Some of his "stupidity" might be unintentional at times. Don't give him too much credit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	frellmedead 2017-09-26 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	It turned into a really cool experience, at least? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blewupasun 2017-09-26 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Do you remember what you did to accidentally make your wormhole? Theoretically, and using the knowledge of the Stargate System, we might be able to combine all the knowledge we have to at least try a test. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 03:11 am UTC (link)
	I can walk you through all the parameters of my test. We don't have my module here, but we could probably program the holodeck to do a simulation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blewupasun 2017-09-26 03:12 am UTC (link)
	Let's do it, we could at least get an understanding and potentially build some simulations with combined knowledge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. When do you want to do this? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blewupasun 2017-09-26 03:15 am UTC (link)
	Tomorrow morning? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	frellmedead 2017-09-26 03:21 am UTC (link)
	I'm game. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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jadzia_dax
2017-09-26 04:45 am UTC (link)

For a few years it was standard procedure. It was accidentally discovered when the Enterprise was falling into a collapsing planet. Cold starting the warp drive took them three days into the past. And you know, saved everyone's life.

Using that as the basis, the slingshot effect was used to study the past until it was deemed too dangerous to use regularly.

In 2286, the effect was used to bring the humpback whale from the 1980s, in order to prevent an ancient probe that had come in search of whales from terraforming Earth.

As far as I know, it's never been used to hop universes.

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	torpedoed 2017-09-26 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	So it did actually work? What was the danger - simply moving towards the sun at such a speed? Were there any ill effects associated with it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jadzia_dax 2017-09-26 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	There were two dangers. The immediate was accidentally being pulled into the sun. If calculations were wrong, you wouldn't be able to pull out of the gravity well. The other was changing the timeline. No long term ill effects were ever discovered. The latter is why the practice was stopped, generally. Too risky. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	torpedoed 2017-09-27 12:14 am UTC (link)
	I suppose at this point one could argue that with the travelers here, the timeline has already been changed. Have we had anyone here who left and came back, but remembered being on the ship the fist time? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jadzia_dax 2017-09-27 12:17 am UTC (link)
	This timelime was already a splinter from my own, and with the travelers its splintered further. We've had two or three. Frost was one, I think there was another. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	torpedoed 2017-09-27 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Do you know if she remembered this place when she was back at home and if she told anyone about it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jadzia_dax 2017-09-27 01:11 am UTC (link)
	That, I didn't ask. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	narvinthespy 2017-09-26 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	How delightfully stupid. It could help the travellers who's appeared from earlier time periods in this universe, which, I suppose, is better than nothing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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