[ExI] Weird new way to do physics

[The Avantguardian]

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> Engineers must be unit-bilingual.
 
But how unit-multilingual are you?  If a train starts from Stone Henge at 40 cubits/rotation of an egg-timer and then from there accelerates at Plutonian surface g, then riddle me this BatSpike: how many barrels of water fall over Victorian Falls before the train reaches Dover as the laden swallow flies?
 
> 
> My MBrain pitch Friday used an acceleration unit you may not be familiar with.  
> Recall that I proposed moving an entire star and planetary system using light 
> pressure from an MBrain.  In that sense, the most useful unit of acceleration is 
> light-years per square age, where age is defined as one million years.  So a 
> typical sunlike star with an MBrain can create an acceleration of about .03 
> ly/(age)^2.  If that is the case, then .5a*t^2 using a=.03, then t is about 15 
> ages, or 15 million years, to go a distance of the nearest star.

Congrats on delivering your pitch but who were you pitching? Sounds fascinating, but I am sure an MBrain would figure out a way to travel faster than you propose even if it had to consume entire planets in its path. I mean I certainly would if I were an MBrain. Time is money, after all, no matter how fat and shiny you are right? Besides I am no angel *now* let alone if I had the tremendous power of an MBrain at my disposal.
 
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Stuart LaForge


“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky