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@Lensflare spit in any direction to accelerate in the opposite direction immediately
you can also poop in your hand and throw it
aim it so you're being bumped towards the brightest star you see -
@kiki can you imagine how much spit or feces you would need to build up a high enough speed to make the slightest amount of a difference?
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@Lensflare one spit is enough. remember, there is no air resistance.
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@kiki you wouldn‘t lose speed but you wouldn’t accelerate fast enough to make a meaningful difference. The distances are too vast and you would require insane amounts of propellant to accelerate to even a small fraction of the speed of light. And even with the speed of light, you would need hundreds of millions of years to reach the next galaxy, let alone something like the great attractor.
one spit will accelerate you for a moment and increase your speed to a higher constant speed. It won’t give you constant acceleration. -
@Lensflare it depends on where exactly are you suspended in space at the beginning of the experiment.
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@kiki no, why do you think that?
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@Lensflare if I'm one meter away from the great attractor, reaching the great attractor wouldn't be a problem
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@antigermanist you wouldn’t be able to, unless you were in a space suit
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@Lensflare he could sing for himself in his head though
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@kiki my favorite note is sol. G in american. I think the indians call it na.
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@antigermanist na na na na na
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@kiki that’s not singing though ^^
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@antigermanist having a favorite note is weird ^^
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Not to mention you would completely disintegrate at just small fractions of light speed.
The universe is not *empty*. Ultra low density, yes, but not empty.
Colliding with an hydrogen atom (of which there's one per cubic kilometer) at any significant fraction of light speed would obliterate you.
It's the equivalent of being shot by a cannonball. -
@CoreFusionX in this experiment, I’m immortal
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@kiki
Actually, the issue is what makes up conscience.
Matter is, essentially, immortal. It's not created nor destroyed (save for antimatter interactions, of which the known universe doesn't seem to have, and even then, they are reversible).
I guess closest thing you envision is the Ancients/Ori from Stargate, and even then, they are immortal, but not indestructible.
Being stranded in space while immortal is not as grim of a fate as one might think. Because all matter attracts, you will be slowly pulled towards the biggest object in the universe, the great attractor perhaps. Or the biggest star.
You will be slowly accelerating until you reach the speed very close to the speed of light. You'll go on a long, long journey, where you'll have a chance to see the universe in all its beauty. After your journey ends, as you're being pulled into the biggest thing there is, you'll challenge the immortality itself. How will your body that is still made of atoms react to being turned into plasma? Do you die and thus prove whoever had given you the gift of immortality wrong? Or do you keep on living without body, proving that souls do exist?
Without mass, your soul is free to travel at the speed of light wherever it pleases.
If it turns out that you were an immortal avatar that survived plasma, you won't survive the heat death of the universe. Alternatively, you'll be the last thing to exist ever.
Because you survived the heat death of the universe, your mass shouldn't decrease, so you'll be the darkest shade of black there is. You'll get the N-word pass! It's time to invent a new universe in your mind.
For all we know, we might as well be figments of imagination of an immortal being that was once a "human" where they came from that was given the gift of immortality and went through all the stages I described above.
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