Those of you saying we are 1000 years away from Combine technology...

[Dr Issac Kleiner]

I guess you get this because our cities are suceptible to lasers, which would catch them on fire... We have no space travel or speed of light travel, etc.

If any of you don't know, advancements in nanotechnology have made newer metals possible... Nanocopper for one. At the moment, we can only build it in space, but as we get more advanced, we will find more ways.

It's basically the hardest metal known to man, because it's metal with no holes. It wouldn't be suceptible to normal types of damage that most metals would have.

These metals can either be put on cars and cities, or they can continue the development of other prototype nanometals, making things nearly resisitant to damage.

We don't have teleportation? Actually we do. Except in order to teleport, it kills the object(s), then remakes it, instead of teleporting it manually.

Speed of light? With enough electro magnetism, you can get very very close, and one day achieve the speed of light.

The average person is simply not aware of how much the world is changing, they think the world will the same, they'll be no space travel, no flying cars, in 50 years. They are sadly mistaken.

 

[function9]

Ok. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in your previous thread(s). But I see now you're clearly retarded. Seriously, you're trying to validate a comparison between the technology we might have in real life vs. the technology we might have in a work of fiction. Go put your helmet back on and take your meds.

 

[586FAC75]

Yes, of course. Because metal "with no holes" is a damn good idea. I'm forever falling out of my car when turning round corners due to the bloody holes in my door frames, not to mention the problem I have when eating soup with a metal spoon...Like eating custard with a sieve I tells ya!

You wouldn't happen to mean that the atoms and molecules in certian materials are so tightly packed together they hold super-strength qualities?

Belold! The amazing Nano Copper!

 

[Tagaziel]

Zellio, the whole point of teleportation is making the *SAME* object travel instanteinously between point A and B. Not killing it.

Are you a kid? Because seriously, stop making such half-assed arguments, even little cougars can make better ones.

 

[Beerdude26]

Well, we are making some pretty good advances in every scientific field. You can't say that the world isn't going to change radically in the next 50 years.

 

[Jintor]

1,000 years is a pretty big timeframe methink.

 

[bigburpco]

Like man; are you ****ed in the brain or something? Because, you know, we're comparing the resistance's technology to the Combine's. Not ours. That just does not make sense. :|

 

[Cherubimon]

"holes in metal"
Are you talking about physical holes in the metal or the space between molecules of the substance. Stainless steel is one of the most dense most strongest metals known to humans.

 

[flycrusher]

The whole universe is made of holes. Our life is full of holes, it starts getting out of one and end by going down in another one!:naughty:
In fact atoms are almost empty, there is an extremely thinny core and a very diffuse electrons cloud that spin around it.
We are all made of emptyness, for some it's not only a question of matter!

 

[Link]

I guess you get this because our cities are suceptible to lasers, which would catch them on fire... We have no space travel or speed of light travel, etc.

If any of you don't know, advancements in nanotechnology have made newer metals possible... Nanocopper for one. At the moment, we can only build it in space, but as we get more advanced, we will find more ways.

It's basically the hardest metal known to man, because it's metal with no holes. It wouldn't be suceptible to normal types of damage that most metals would have.

These metals can either be put on cars and cities, or they can continue the development of other prototype nanometals, making things nearly resisitant to damage.

We don't have teleportation? Actually we do. Except in order to teleport, it kills the object(s), then remakes it, instead of teleporting it manually.

Speed of light? With enough electro magnetism, you can get very very close, and one day achieve the speed of light.

The average person is simply not aware of how much the world is changing, they think the world will the same, they'll be no space travel, no flying cars, in 50 years. They are sadly mistaken.

 

[$kelet0r]

Yes, of course. Because metal "with no holes" is a damn good idea. I'm forever falling out of my car when turning round corners due to the bloody holes in my door frames, not to mention the problem I have when eating soup with a metal spoon...Like eating custard with a sieve I tells ya!

You wouldn't happen to mean that the atoms and molecules in certian materials are so tightly packed together they hold super-strength qualities?

Belold! The amazing Nano Copper!

i giggled like a school girl :cheese:

 

[Asknoone]

Yes, of course. Because metal "with no holes" is a damn good idea. I'm forever falling out of my car when turning round corners due to the bloody holes in my door frames, not to mention the problem I have when eating soup with a metal spoon...Like eating custard with a sieve I tells ya!

You wouldn't happen to mean that the atoms and molecules in certian materials are so tightly packed together they hold super-strength qualities?

Belold! The amazing Nano Copper!

I loled.

 

[Higlac]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2049048.stm

EUREKA SUCCESS!!!!


in 2002

 

[Shasta]

Oh boy. Another attempt by Zellio to stir up hypothetical crap because someone let him play a video game that he has taken far too seriously. Zellio, your posts are like watching a blond try to say something intelligent, and just digging herself deeper. "Better to stay silent and have everyone think you are an idiot, than to open your mouth and prove it".

I have stayed out of your other rediculous threads because most of them are as stimulating and productive as arguing about which Power Ranger could beat Megatron. And you would probably make that even more sad by arguing about something like how much power Megatron would consume per hour, or what he does on the weekends. But you just insist on posting more and more of these threads, so I feel obliged to comment.

We have pretty much gone from horseback and shacks to powered flight, space flight, computers, instant person-to-person global communication etc etc within 100 years. Not alot changed very quickly in the hundreds of years before that. It's pretty clear that technology is gaining momentum, and the world is changing very quickly now. This thread is as pointless as one about "PC's will be faster than they are now in 10 years". Please stop making threads about crap. I come into the "Half Life 2" section to read about Half Life 2, not your "let's take this WAY too seriously and post about "So... if the Combine decided the HL universe wasn't a good one to attack...(eg)" threads".

Thanks. Have a great day.

 

[Asknoone]

Looks like Shasta summed it up perfectly.

 

[Solaris]

Why do all the crazies ^ post here?

Heh.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Yes! We can move an immensely tiny object from one point to another point half an inch away from it! It's the exact same thing as a working teleporter! And we can in theory go as fast as speed of light! Just like we could a hundred years ago, it's the same thing as actually being able to do it! Yaay!

 

[Dekstar]

It's impossible to travel at the speed of light. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more time slows in an asymptote function, getting closer and closer to time completely stopping, but never actually reaching it. So to get to the speed of light it would take you roughly.... Infinite years.

 

[357]

You know, i think this guy is kinda right... I have read about the Nano coper and all other nano-crap... They are a realy big step forward... This material is even tougher than diamond... If i had to guess i'd say we are about 200-400 years away from Combine tech...maby even less...

 

[Escaep]

The achievement confirms that in theory teleportation is possible, at least for sub-atomic particles; whether it can be done for larger systems, such as atoms, remains to be seen.

Lol, i think we are far away from teleporting humans.

 

[Shasta]

Looks like Shasta summed it up perfectly.

Thank-you. I was a little concerned that my post might have been mistaken as rampant flaming, but it's good to see that you understood that it was just a heart-felt "wake-up" call to the thread-starter, as are all of my posts like that!

 

[Jintor]

It's impossible to travel at the speed of light. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more time slows in an asymptote function, getting closer and closer to time completely stopping, but never actually reaching it. So to get to the speed of light it would take you roughly.... Infinite years.

I was under the impression that your mass becomes infinite when you hit the speed of light.

 

[357]

well acordigly to Einstein theorys you're right...

 

[Remus]

If i had to guess i'd say we are about 200-400 years away from Combine tech...maby even less...

That would be my guess too but the fact of the matter is no one knows how technology will progress in 400 years time so any speculation is pointless. Oh yeah and like someone else said this is comparing Combine tech to real life tech not the technology the resistance has in the game so what's the point...

well acordigly to Einstein theorys you're right...

Well Einstein was full of shit so...

 

[Darkwolf]

He's probably one of those people who thinks that we never landed on the moon...

Also, I'm fairly sure you can go up to about Warp 9.95... or have I been watching too much star trek...

 

[Dekstar]

I was under the impression that your mass becomes infinite when you hit the speed of light.

Which is why you can't reach it .
We're both right.

 

[zleppelin]

We don't have teleportation? Actually we do. Except in order to teleport, it kills the object(s), then remakes it, instead of teleporting it manually.

Yes, and we also have fax machines. We just need someone clever enough to come up with a fax machine that destroys original documents after they are faxed.

Speed of light? With enough electro magnetism, you can get very very close, and one day achieve the speed of light.

You can't go at the speed of light without violating the laws of physics.

The average person is simply not aware of how much the world is changing, they think the world will the same, they'll be no space travel, no flying cars, in 50 years. They are sadly mistaken.

Space travel? yes. Flying cars? Yes: www.moller.com

 

[TehPolaris]

The combine can hop dimensions. We don't even understand our own.

That said its kinda sad to compare the tech level of a fictional alien race to our own in reality. This is like comparing our level of robotics to that of the borg. I mean we can have mechanical prosthetics so it must be only a shot amout of time before we all become borg right?

Resistance is futile

 

[Escaep]

Time travel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel

http://www.timetravelinstitute.com/...r=42169&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Is time travel possible.htm

http://scifiscience.co.uk/themes/timetravel/time.html

Teleportation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation

http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/teleportation.htm

http://skepdic.com/teleportation.html

http://www.lycos.com/info/teleportation--information.html

Space Dimensions: http://ctp.berkeley.edu/extraD.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060626_mystery_monday.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/string_systems_030226.html

http://www.rahul.net/raithel/otfw/dimensions.html

I know no one will click on all of these, but in case you were interested.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2049048.stm

EUREKA SUCCESS!!!!


in 2002

"Quantum teleporting is problematic for humans because the original is destroyed in the process of creating the replica."

So it's really just a complex fax machine/shedder? And the way they descibe it is really just that, it doesnt really seem to teleport the object, just copy it's properties like the information, not something I really consider teleportation. If this way they manage to teleport a human, the original is DEAD, the new one is a clone.

 

[Victor2]

We don't have teleportation? Actually we do. Except in order to teleport, it kills the object(s), then remakes it, instead of teleporting it manually.

What the **** have you been smoking?! Since we don't have the technology to reconstruct the body after the teleportation it's pretty much stupid saying we have teleportation.

 

[Ennui]

Zellio, I didn't read anything other than the first post in this thread, and you are both wrong and retarded.

 

[Stingey]

I predict severe obesity problems when we reach the speed of light.

 

[TehPolaris]

What the **** have you been smoking?! Since we don't have the technology to reconstruct the body after the teleportation it's pretty much stupid saying we have teleportation.

Yep, and I don't even think we have the technology to completely dismantle the the object and save its information so we can't even do the first part of this "teleportation" let aloen reconstruct the object somewhere else.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

To be honest I dont think it's possible in the sense of instant transmission, unless complex physics actually prove otherwise. I mean if it does happen, how does something of mass actually get transferred with whatever the teleporter uses (electricity?) if it was sent through that, I think at best it would be a clone and not the original thing; which would suck for living things since you'd die upon the instant bukakeing or whatever. Lets say it does clone the being, and the clone says "omg it worked!" the scientists will think it worked but the original is dead! The clone knows everything of your former self and reacts accordingly as you would. Unless it involves something more along the lines of actually projecting the mass itself all at once without killing it with super speedness.. I'm not a physicist so I'm not sure about any real specifics.

 

[Remus]

Lets say it does clone the being, and the clone says "omg it worked!" the scientists will think it worked but the original is dead! The clone knows everything of your former self and reacts accordingly as you would.

I've thought about this aspect too and quite frankly it scares the shit out of me. If they ever make teleportation possible and available for the general public I sure as hell won't go anywhere near it.

 

[Darkwolf]

Wasn't there a movie about this? Or some sort of... mind teleportation... I can't remember what it was called... but as I recall, the main character got his body hijacked and so on.

 

[-Psy-]

Flying cars?

Please, flying cars are not the future.

 

[Cole]

If flying cars are the future then i'm scared shitless.

Honestly though, who cares? Yeah the future is going to bring lots of technological advancements. The ones it will bring are questionable. Combine Technology is from a game. A GAME. The technology the game will have and the technology we will advance to will be completely different.
You made an entire thread on this.
Find a cliff. Jump off of it.

 

[213]

I guess you get this because our cities are suceptible to lasers, which would catch them on fire... We have no space travel or speed of light travel, etc.

If any of you don't know, advancements in nanotechnology have made newer metals possible... Nanocopper for one. At the moment, we can only build it in space, but as we get more advanced, we will find more ways.

It's basically the hardest metal known to man, because it's metal with no holes. It wouldn't be suceptible to normal types of damage that most metals would have.

These metals can either be put on cars and cities, or they can continue the development of other prototype nanometals, making things nearly resisitant to damage.

We don't have teleportation? Actually we do. Except in order to teleport, it kills the object(s), then remakes it, instead of teleporting it manually.

Speed of light? With enough electro magnetism, you can get very very close, and one day achieve the speed of light.

The average person is simply not aware of how much the world is changing, they think the world will the same, they'll be no space travel, no flying cars, in 50 years. They are sadly mistaken.

hl2 is science fiction of the most fantastical degree. i'm not very skeptical of what nasa or a top university says as they are pretty damn credible when it comes to science...but there are limits to some of your comments. to think that in 50 years we'll get flying cars is preposterous. i'm not denouncing the technology, i'm just saying how impractical it is. space travel and flying cars are already available right now...but how efficient and effective, and safe is the question.

you smack of arrogance when you talk of technological advancement like this. do you know how many people have died to make these advancements possible? so now you talk of it like a kid who has never flown an x-plane or engineered a space craft. your hubris is disgusting.

when i mention space travel and high energy lasers, etc...i consider how much effort goes into it while brats like you don't ever think about how and why it's possible...you just care that it is possible so you can say how great humanity is.