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[HTRK74JR]

run your finger along a sheet of paper. now fold it up a few times loosley, then run your finger across it again. that is essentially what SS is, but with infinite amount of points to travel along. During the Human-Covenant war, Humanity ripped holes in this space, hence them appearing thousands of kilometers from their destination. The covenant can see these "lines" and travel along them as a bolt on a piece of string would., pinpoint slipspace.

[KhevaKins]

"History Channel, Science Channel, and other channels of that nature."

RRRIIIGGHHHTTT. Cause those shows, meant for entertainment, are always 100% in with the scientifical no how. Haven't you seen 'A History Channel Thanksgiving'
from Southpark. They just lie because it is all for entertainment. Never listen to white hair asian guy, who is an expert on everything according to the aforementioned channels.

That is all.

[Emberblaque]

RRRIIIGGHHHTTT. Cause those shows, meant for entertainment, are always 100% in with the scientifical no how. Haven't you seen 'A History Channel Thanksgiving'
from Southpark. They just lie because it is all for entertainment. Never listen to white hair asian guy, who is an expert on everything according to the aforementioned channels.

That is all.

I was specifically hoping that listing those channels would stir some skepticism within you.

[KhevaKins]

You know me to well.

[Emberblaque]

You know me to well.

You plural. English unfortunately has no formal distinction between the singular and plural second person.

[KhevaKins]

KhevaKins sometimes talks like this also

[Zero]

I don't particularly watch History or Science all that often just because of all the "What-if" shows they have on there. Their 'Universe' special was alright, but it was the same stuff repeated for 6 hours. :\

What History channel gets right is UFO hunters, though. That's some real interesting shit.

[KhevaKins]

RRIIGGHHTTT. Interesting/ bull shit, all the same stuff.

[Kommrad II]

I liked the Hitler channel better, it's what got me into history when I was a youngin'.

[ErrorlessErik]

I liked the Hitler channel better, it's what got me into history when I was a youngin'.

Same here

[D4RKST0RM99]

From what i understand about physics, entering slipspace is the same as going from point A to point B, but by going through point C (slipspace) the distance is drastically reduced

I know there is a term for this but it slips my mind currently

Do you mean the sheet of paper example?
You take two diagonall opposite corners of a sheet of paper, mark them A and B, on the paper they are the greatest distances between two points, their distance relative to each other can never change BUT- fold the paper back onto itself and have the two diagonal corners meet so the distance on paper hasent changed but at the same time the distance between A abd B is 0, this example is used to explain wormholes and FTL travel involving folding space.

It may also be worth noting the differance between UNSC and Covenant slipdrives, the Covenant's used very little power and very delicatley form the slipspace rupture whereas the UNSC equivelant uses massive amounts of power and sheer brute force.

[Rovert10]

I find pictures to be a better way of explaining things.



The grid represents Space in it's normal form. What warp drives does is scrunch up that space in front of you. Say each square is 1 light year. You still cross over that 1 square but do you can say do like 3 in the space of 1.

Now think this but a 100 times over or so.
Idk about slipspace but it seems it just seems to do the same but does it in its own seperate world.

Almost similar to Star Wars Hyperspace Drives where you go into a seperate "bubble" that takes you into FTL speeds.

[Defender0]

Almost similar to Star Wars Hyperspace Drives where you go into a seperate "bubble" that takes you into FTL speeds.

except star wars hyperdrives are exponentially faster

[Rovert10]

except star wars hyperdrives are exponentially faster

Yeah Slipspace seems really slow considering you have to go into cyro to go anywhere long distance.

Star Trek you can at least get to pretty much any destination within a maximum time of a month usually much less. Ofc the Delta Quadrant is the exception.
I suppose even faster in ST since Warp 10 is essentially "infinite" speed allowing that whole time travel deal and stuff. Federation has a ship that can go Warp 9.99 regularly.

Star Wars is dash across a galaxy within a matter of days.

[Defender0]

Star Wars is dash across a galaxy within a matter of days.

hours, not days

picture 30,000 light years per day, for the average hyperdrive, with many going even faster than that

[Bornstellaris]

Asgard hyperdrives in stargate could fly 3 million light years in under half and hour, other then this the Star Wars universe would have second most powerful hyperdrives

[Zero]

Well we all know Stargate was the Mary Sue of all Sci-fi shows on at the time. The first season is really the only season worth watching IMO.

[Bornstellaris]

Atlantis was the best in my opinion but they were all good watchs, providing a good sci fi experience

[Unikraken]

All of these analogies are actually pretty wrong. The Nether was the best example here actually. You're not going from point A to B by bending space. You're not traveling along warp bubbles. You are literally tearing a hole into another sub-universe, traveling through it's warped/folded space, and then tearing another hole back into our own.

It's like there are two pieces of grid paper, one is flat and another underneath it is all bent up, but both sheets grids still represent the same points in space. You drop down onto the bent up paper, take your short trip, then pop back up on the corresponding point on the flat grid paper.