Withlemon

Just a thought of pure randomness to get you close to my world..

So I was thinking the other day about random things like, "how fast IS the speed of light?" and "Wouldn't time travel be awesome".

My mind then mushed these two thoughts together and came up with this fine little nugget.

Suppose you could travel faster than the speed of light. Suppose you saw a planet that was 1 light year away that could support life. You think "Man that would be cool to see" So you invent a way of travel that goes 1 light year in 360 days. (There's a reason I picked 360 days, just hold on to yourself a second). So you develop this way of travel in a year (it's possible right...) A couple of days before you plan to leave you buy some necessary equipment from Wal-Mart (because they have everything), like food, water, toiletries, and a NASA grade, pocket sized telescope. After your trip to Wal-Mart you spend 4 days outside arranging a large formation out of very large rocks. So you arrange these rocks to say "Good Bye World!" (The span from the letter G to the letter D would be about half a mile or so).

Confused? Good! Know where I'm going with this. get out of my head, this is my fantasy!

Sooooo now that you have made your pre-trip arrangements you load your "Light-speed +" vehicle, which I'm sure resembles 1985 Ford Escort, rust and all, because, damn! those thing do not quit working.

So with enough food to last the rest of your life, which may be short, due to the cosmic radiation you have forgotten to take into account, I'm sure you'll melt roughly 2.5 weeks after arriving as said planet, and your pocket sized NASA peeper, you jump in your rusted out American made Ford Escort Light-Speed + LE (Luxury Edition) and blast off.

After a year 360 days of travel you arrive at your destination planet. (No! I don't know how you peed or shat along the way, and I'm sure your legs have atrophy, but let's just keep this going shall we?) You arrive, you stretch out your jell-o like legs and start to setup some sort of base camp. Maybe you were towing a pop-up camper behind the FELSLE (Ford Escort Light Speed + LE) You pop up your camper, sleep for a day and then jump out of bed. Now, with your pocket sized NASA peeper you search the sky for your old home planet, Earth. After half a day of searching you find it, zooming WAY WAY WAY in.....

You can now see yourself setting up a bunch of rocks in the formation to say, Good Bye World!.

Maybe you don't get it, maybe you do, but DAMN that would be freaky and cool.

I'm off to find myself a Ford Escort.....

Oh by the way, the speed of light is 186,000 mi/sec