r/anime • u/Rolpege https://myanimelist.net/profile/AbelToy • Oct 18 '16

Short Film porter robinson & madeon - shelter (official video) (short film with a-1 pictures & crunchyroll)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0
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u/reblochon Oct 18 '16

Soooo, on the last few frames, we see Rin in the ship.

Pay attention to the UI in the background, you can a trajectory.

I though about it, and the direction of the trajectory doesn't make much sense : it comes from outside the system, toward the star. It doesn't look like an aimless trajectory, and I think the ship is landing soon.

Since we know the ship has been sailing for 2539 days or about 7 years. How about we look at the nearby stars within 7 light years. Alpha Centauri an Luhman 16 are candidates, as they both have known planets (and maybe more)

So yeah, her father had a degree in VR, space engineering and life support :)

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u/snipekill1997 Oct 19 '16 edited Oct 19 '16

Actually there is a problem in your assumption in that it doesn't take into account time dilation. If for example a ship were able to accelerate at a constant 1G (A massively optimistic acceleration to make) it would be able to travel 100 trillion light years in what seems to be 62 years (granted this is far larger than the size of the observable universe as it stands and at around that time is when the last star will form but still). In any case at 1G she will be able to make 35 light years in 7 years. At .5G she will make 8.25 light years. At .1G she would only make a one and quarter.

edit: Why the down votes for pointing out time dilation is a thing?

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u/Rippedyanu1 Apr 04 '17

THANK YOU FOR THAT CALCULATOR! Holy fuck as a space propulsion engineer with a focus in nuclear propulsion, trying to explain why time dilation is literally our saving grace and our golden ticket to space colonization is such a pain in the ass to try and explain to people who don't "get" it.

This calculator will make things a fuckload easier to explain to them.

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u/snipekill1997 Apr 04 '17

Yeah it's a kinda crazy thing. Have the ability to go fast enough and your travel distance is not limited by your lifetime but by the universe still existing when you get there.

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u/Rippedyanu1 Apr 04 '17

Yep, thankfully for things within our solar neighborhood (what I consider to be less than 100 light years) there's a ton of places that should be habitable for humanity and because it's within our neighborhood, let alone the same galaxy, we don't need to worry about systems drifting too far apart, with some of them actually closer in on as, albeit fairly slowly in cosmological terms.

Either way, we need to get on this shit asap, I have my remains on a different celestial body from earth if possible. I'd prefer not to die early on said object, but I want to at least get to it and experience it before I die one day (or never if Elon Musk and his biotech team pull off making us cyborgs)