[23:03] Kevin: If my calculations are correct, I would need to stream data at around 2tb/s
[23:04] Kevin: And I would need several yottabyte drives (which is 1000^8 (as a comparison, terabyte is 1000^4)
[23:05] Ben: Eventually you may hit the light-speed barrier
[23:06] Kevin: Hmm, I wonder if I can create a sonic boom by streaming super high definition content really fucking fast.
[23:06] * Kevin grabs a pencil and starts to math-i-tize.
[23:07] Kevin: Which generally starts with me doing real calculations, then making up numbers as I get bored, and then just doodling.
[23:08] Ben: To make it easier, you could lower the speed of sound by cooling the air around
[23:08] * Kevin adds liquid nitrogen into the mix
[23:09] Kevin: Or better yet, that one undiscovered plasma that has been theorized to be 1000 times colder than liquid nitrogen.
[23:09] Kevin: I don't even remember why they think it exists.
[23:10] Kevin: Something to do with galaxies and the like.
[23:10] Kevin: I wasn't paying attention.
[23:10] Kevin: But I need it.
[23:10] Ben: To Newegg!
[23:10] Kevin: Away!
[23:10] Ben: But don't go for the $6.99 version
[23:10] Ben: It'll probably arrive warm
[23:11] Kevin: We shouldn't be allowed to brainstorm when I've had this much caffeine.
[23:11] Kevin: But nevermind that.
[23:12] Ben: How do you plan to power your uber-setup?
[23:12] Kevin: I was just going to ask if you thought the world would mind being destroyed for the sake of this experiment's power source.
[23:12] Ben: What is it? Omega particle?:P
[23:12] Ben: Antimatter, strangelets, micro-singularities...
[23:13] Ben: Yeah, I read too much SF
[23:13] Kevin: I was going to suggest an atomic route, but antimatter sounds much easier.
[23:13] Ben: Well the thing with atomic energy is that you really can only make the process so efficient before you hit a rather low plateau (compared to antimatter)
[23:14] Kevin: Very true, very true.
[23:14] Ben: Cold fusion is wonderful, but it's impractical because it takes more energy to create the materials than you'll get from the process
[23:14] Kevin: And plateaus are bad when trying to break the sound barrier.
[23:14] Ben: If you can find a cheap way of producing antimatter, you essentially have a limitless power supply for your purposes.
[23:14] Ben: I suspect that you'll run into conservation of energy problems, however...
[23:15] Kevin: Plus we've already got an undiscovered super-cold plasma that we need to order. We might arouse suspicion from the UN if we order that AND the supplies to create a cold fusion technique.
[23:15] Ben: You can divert their attention by claiming that Australia has WMDs
[23:15] Ben: It worked for France and Iraq
[23:15] Kevin: Of course! It's so simple.
[23:16] Kevin: Now all we need is an airheaded Texan to push the issue for us.
[23:16] Ben: Hmm, it appears that you need a particle accelerator to produce antimatter ...
[23:17] Kevin: Damn. If only we knew Marty McFly
[23:17] Kevin: Doc could totally hook is up.
[23:18] Ben: "in 2004; the annual production of antiprotons at CERN was several picograms at a cost of $20 million. This means to produce 1 gram of antimatter, CERN would need to spend 100 quadrillion dollars and run the antimatter factory for 100 billion years."
[23:18] Ben: Your project budget has suddenly increased somewhat dramatically.
[23:18] Kevin: It's doable.
[23:18] Kevin: No, really. I have this awesome approach.
[23:18] Ben: We'll also need a localized temporal distortion in which time is vastly accelerated.
[23:18] Ben: Since we can't afford to wait 100 billion years.
[23:19] Kevin: I'm just going to write a check for a gazillion dollars. By the time the poor bastards realize I don't have it, we'll all be dead!
[23:19] Ben: Aww, screw it.
[23:20] Ben: Let's just wait until someone comes up with cheap energy production and builds a time machine.  Then we steal the plans, go back in time, and give those plans to our past-present selves.
[23:20] Ben: So all we have to do is wait around for our future selves to show up.  Any time now.
[23:20] Kevin: Great idea.
[23:20] Kevin: ...
[23:20] Kevin: Soooo
[23:20] Kevin: How are you?
[23:20] Ben: Pretty good
[23:20] Ben: Kind of miffed at my lack of punctuality.
[23:20] Ben: But I'm sure I will have my reasons.
[23:22] Kevin: Yeah.
[23:22] Kevin: Maybe there's something good on TV in the future.
[23:45] Kevin: Mmkay, scratch the Yottabyte drives. We'd also need a new technology for those.
[23:45] Kevin: we'll call it the tachybyte
[23:46] Kevin: Oh, and we'll need a bent paperclip to start the whole thing off.
[23:47] Kevin: Fuck.
[23:47] Kevin: Where the hell are we going to get a bent paperclip?
[23:47] Ben: We could steal one from the Smithsonian.  They must have an old paperclip on display somewhere
[23:49] Kevin: And risk looking like Nicholas Cage? I think not!
[23:49] Ben: Oh, great idea
[23:49] Ben: We manipulate Nicolas Cage into doing it for us!
[23:49] Kevin: Manipulate? Who needs manipulation when you've antimatter?
[23:50] Ben: We don't have the antimatter yet, dude
[23:50] Ben: We need the paperclip first!
[23:50] Ben: Focus!
[23:50] Kevin: Ah, shit.
[23:50] Kevin: Okay, so Nicholas Cage gets us the Paperclip. In return we grant him a small slice of power in our new world order.
[23:50] Kevin: WAIT
[23:50] Kevin: WAIT
[23:50] Kevin: WAIT
[23:50] Kevin: I HAVE AN IDEA
[23:51] Kevin: Fuck Nicholas Cage, this is better.
[23:51] Kevin: We create a computer so advanced that it turns objects on the screen to real concrete things
[23:51] Kevin: And we install Microsoft Word...
[23:51] Ben: NO
[23:51] Ben: I will not be responsible for bringing that monstrosity into the world.
[23:52] Ben: Giving birth to the animated paperclip is a crime against humanity that not even I could commit, dude.
[23:52] Kevin: IT'S IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE, BEN! DO YOU REALLY THINK IT WILL BE ANY WORSE THAN ANOTHER NATIONAL TREASURE MOVIE?
[23:52] Ben: YES
[23:54] Kevin: Is the monster that we would be creating truly worse than Nicholas Cage attempting to pull off cultured and intelligent?
[23:54] Ben: Yes
[23:54] Kevin: ...
[23:54] Ben: You can ignore movies
[23:54] Kevin: Maybe we're getting in over our heads now...
[23:54] Ben: You can't ignore something like that
[23:54] Ben: It's just ... too horrible for words.
[23:54] Kevin: Okay ... okay...
[23:55] Kevin: We'll get Nicholas Cage to get us the paperclip ...
[23:55] Kevin: But then ...
[23:55] Kevin: We'll have to do you know what.
[23:55] Ben: ... riverdance?
[23:55] Kevin: I'm afraid so.
[23:55] Ben: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
[23:56] Kevin: It's our only option!
[23:56] Ben: If it
[23:56] Ben: If it's in the name of science...
[23:56] Ben: You know what the scientists on the Manhattan Project said: "What happens in the desert outside of Vegas stays in the desert outside of Vegas, thanks to prevailing wind patterns."
[23:57] Kevin: Agreed. Stand tall, my friend. Stand tall.
[23:57] Ben: Sound advice for any riverdancer.
[23:57] Kevin: So after we riverdance ...
[23:58] Kevin: I don't even know, man. Is there an "after" when riverdancing?
[00:00] Ben: Yes, if you flip the tape over to side "B".
[00:00] Kevin: And then what!?!
[00:00] Ben: Press play and pray, man.  Press play and pray.
[00:00] Kevin: God's speed, dude.
[00:01] * Kevin presses play