Appeal to Force (Argumentum ad Baculum)

Anatomy of an Appeal to Force (Argumentum ad Baculum)

Appeal to Force (Argumentum ad Baculum) is an informal logical fallacy in which the arguer threatens (a.k.a. intimidates) the persuadee that unpleasant consequences will follow if  they do not accept the conclusion.  This is fallacious (a.k.a. illogical) because the threat of force does not necessarily prove the conclusion to be correct.  I will use a war junkie's ultimatum against a sexy Colo Claw Fish as a sample.


The Arguer: A war-profiteering company known as Halliburton's share holders

Halliburton is a massive conglomerate that is both an oil company and a military contractor.  Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton prior to being the vice president in George Walker Bush's administration from 2001 to 2009.  Halliburton made big bucks during George's asinine Iraq War that lasted from 2003 until 2010.

The Persuadee: An ultra-effeminate, peace-loving, and anti-war Colo Claw Fish named  Kyro Sparkles Seymour.

Kyro the Colo Claw Fish is an active anti-war demonstrator who frequents the coasts of certain American cites like Washington DC, New York City, and San Diego in protest of the USA's dismal addiction to war.  This sexy effeminate eel is destined to wreck Halliburton as well as to wreck the entire business of war profiteering.  Kyro Sparkles Seymour hates capitalism and militarism equally with a purple passion.  Kyro wants to save the human species from itself.

Halliborton's Conclusion: War profiteering if the BEST business plan ever.

Sadly, war profiteering is very lucrative and there are many other war profiteers besides Hallibureton such as Wall Steet, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, GE, Blackwater, Northrop Grumman, Texico, Exxon Mobile, etc.

Halliburton's Threat: Grenades

Gernades are hand thrown bombs used by military troops to throw at targets on the ground and in the water.  Halliburton's share holders want Kyro to swim in a sea of shrapnel unless the peace eel accepts their pro-war conclusion.

Sample:

A Halliburton share holder to Kyro the Colo Claw Fish: "Sissy Claw Fish, militarism and war are by far the best business plan that was ever conceived.  You go to Washington to pester the Pentagon, New York City to crash Wall Street, and other cites like San Diego to protest military bases.  We need to keep the Pentagon bloated and obese at all times in order to fight off terrorists.  Wall Street needs to be preserved in order to preserve the stock market.  We need the excessive military bases that we have both at home and abroad in order to defend Old Glory against terrorists and tyrants.  If you bring peace, you are going to wreck our business as well as crash the entire Wall Streets.  So you pansy eel; if you do not agree with us, then we will throw hundreds of grenades at you and make you swim in a sea of shrapnel.  Believe us girly eel, you would be in burning excruciating pain smothered in shrapnel, so please be patriotic and support the military industrial complex."

The threat of tossing grenades into the water at Kyro does not necessarily prove that war profiteering is right.  Kyro rightfully rebelled against the ad baculum and said, "Halliburton, you just committed an informal logical fallacy known as an appeal to force (argumentum ad baculum).  I refuse to give into your force argument; and by threatening to throw tons of shrapnel at me, you just further proved my already air-tight point  that war is horrendous.  A force argument is an informal logical fallacy that threatens the persuadee  that unpleasant consequences will follow unless the persuadee agrees with you.  This is highly illogical because the threat of force does not necessarily prove you right.  Your threat of throwing grenades at  me does not prove that war profiteering is good, and in fact further proves that both war profiteering and war sucks!  Peace rocks and war sucks!  You seriously need to get over this dismal addiction to war.  Capitalism sucks because it enriches the few at the expense of the many, I want a resource-based economy that benefits all.  Wall Street needs to be gone and the Pentagon needs to get slimmed down a lot."

Halliburton's share holders were furious and then sought to make good on their threat and had a grenade party in which all of Halliburton's share holders each threw grenades at Kyro from their lavish yachts.  Kyro then leaped out of the water over one of the yachts with ease.  Kyro was jumping out of the water like a dolphin to demonstrate to the attacking war junkies that he was not going to be intimidated by their grenades and will continue to demonstrate for peace.  The war addicts are offended by the site of Kyro's belly and they each hid their face whenever he leaped over their yacht.  The Halliburton share holder who said the force argument yelled, "Kyro, you are now performing indecent exposure!"  Kyro asked, "What am I doing that you consider to be indecent exposure?"  The angriest share holder who used the ad baculum answered, "We hate the sight of your belly and your floppy fins and we order you to cover up your belly and fins, that is what me mean by you doing indecent exposure."  Kyro replied, "Share holders, there is nothing wrong with my body, you need to stop freaking out about me displaying my sexy fins and my erotic belly, it is NOT indecent, it is perfectly natural.  War, war profiteering, and your force argument on the other hand are indecent.  You guys are so selfish and greedy and only think of yourselves, you don't care for those you send off to fight and die in wars.  Many military familes grieve because of self-centered pigs like you.  I will kick out the war junkies!  You guys are addicted to war and don't you even try to deny it."  Kyro had beaten the share holders and their grenade-chucking yachts.

Gas Giant Life Vs Planet Core Life / Cloverfield Vs Sando Aqua Monster

Hello this is Project Orion II's Chief Designer, and the topic of this post will be imaginary but possible life forms that would inhabit the atmospheres of gas giants.  My hero, astronomer Carl Edward Sagan along with a colleague, physicist E.E. Salpeter were two of the first people to speculate about the possibility of life in the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter and did so in 1976.  Physics and chemistry permit such lifeforms  inhabiting gas giants, art presents them with a certain reality and charm, but nature does not have to follow speculations.

However before I get started, let me tell you about a habitat and a life form that physics and chemistry totally forbid.  I will talk about the asinine underwater scene in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (TPM).  Just  before the atrocious scene, the Gungan leader Boss Nass said this cheat line to Quin-Gonn Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Da speediest way to da Naboo is through da planet core!"  I am NOT joking, Boss Nass really meant it, some TPM fans may try to move the goalposts on me by just saying that they went around the core in underwater caves below the entire crust of the planet, but even that falls flat on its face when placed under close scrutiny.  Water is a lot less dense than rock; therefore, rock always sinks in water.  Naboo is a rocky planet like Earth and has a rocky crust too, so logic and physics clearly state that the interior structure of Naboo sucks.  If Colo Claw Fish are real which I believe chances are that they do actually exist, they would live above the basalt oceanic crust of their home world, NOT in the planet core as TPM would have us believe.  Oceanic crust which is made of basalt is denser than continental crust which is made of granite, and that is exactly why it is oceanic crust, not continental crust that gets subducted in subduction zones.  The Naboo planet core nonsense ignores the engine that drives habitable rocky planets, plate tectonics.  Here is a picture of how Earth is structured.  Although no other planet will be identical to Earth, every planet will obey the exact same laws of physics as Earth does.  That is because everywhere in the cosmos, the same laws of physics are observed and obeyed!


Interior of Earth

Now I will talk about the one alien sea animal that really irks me about the TPM underwater scene, a feline marine mammal known as the Sando Aqua Monster.  The Sando Aqua Monster sometimes is the roughly the same size as the Orion II Starship.  Male Sando Aqua Monsters can grow to between 160-200 meters in total body length, female Sando Aqua Monsters only grow to 150 meters in total body length.  The average Sando Aqua Monster is 160 meters in total body length, which is 30 meters shorter than the 190 meter Project Orion II interstellar spacecraft.  The one part in particular that bothers me the most in the entire TPM film is when the second Sando Aqua Monster tortured and then ate a Colo Claw Fish.  The fact that the film GLORIFIED this sadistic act in the name of saving the two Jedi and Jar Jar Binks in the Bongo is what really infuriates me the most about this scene.  There are other aspects besides eating Colo Claw Fish that upset me about Sando Aqua Monsters, they are insensitive, they are bullies, they thrive on handwavium, they attack reason, they attack physics, and they represent my deepest fears of losing what I hold dear.

Sando Aqua Monster (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)

A Cloverfield Leviathan: A Sando Aqua Monster's predator (Cloverfield)

In the following video, I explain exactly why the Manhattan devastating leviathan from Cloverfield can destroy the Sando Aqua Monster.

The next video proves that Clover is an infant despite being TWICE the size of a Sando Aqua Monster.

Now I will go back to the topic of possible life forms to populate gas giants, I will return to what I discussed earlier when I mentioned  that Carl Sagan and E.E. Salpeter at Cornell University came up with possible life for gas giants via some mathematical calculations.  The Jovian "floaters" and "hunters" as illustrated by a scientific artist renowned for his vivid realism are seen in Carl Sagan's landmark book and series called Cosmos which came out in 1980.  These life forms are discussed in the conclusion of Chapter/Episode 2 of Cosmos called One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue.  They started out by talking about small life forms called "sinkers" which are eventually carried down and fried.  Floaters are vast living balloons that are kilometers across; enormously larger than any Sando Aqua Monster ever would be, beings the size of cities.  The floaters are  neutrally buoyant in the atmospheres of gas giants and can consume organic molecules in the atmosphere  or make their own food with sunlight.  The floaters are imagined to be in vast herd for as far  as the eye can see with camouflage patterns on their skin.  Hunters are fast and maneuverable and feast on the floaters both for their organic molecules and store of pure hydrogen.  There cannot be very many hunters because they would perish if they dine on all of the floaters.  Hollow sinkers would evolve into the first floaters while self propelled floaters evolve into the first hunters.


Jupiter Floaters and hunters (Cosmos Chapter/Episode 2: One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue)



Jupiter Floaters (Cosmos Chapter/Episode 2: One  Voice In The Cosmic Fugue)



Jupiter  Hunters (Cosmos Chapter/Episode 2: One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue)

There are others besides Carl Sagan and Salpeter who speculated about possible life forms to inhabit the atmospheres of gas giants, such as astronomer Terence Dickinson and physicist Stephen Hawking.  Terence Dickinson had a couple of pages in his book called Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide For Earthlings talking about atmospheric life on gas giants.  In the foreground was a large over half kilometer long denizen known as an aerial whale which was referred to as "the Guide".  Aerial whales don't have limbs but they are very intelligent, both much larger than and smarter than Sando Aqua Monsters.  Aerial whales carry intelligent tiny crablike creatures that perform various housekeeping duties in their bodies are are in turned provided with free transportation.  In the background are two 40 kilometer tall light bulb shaped floating cities that also serve as spaceports that bob up and down.  This is to better facilitate the launch of a spacecraft by having  the top pierce the stratosphere while the bottom remains available for commuter traffic.  The slits behind  the eyes of the Guide are its ears, the openings where the ears should  be are actually vocal boxes that unleash a deafening roar, the Guide's mouth is a huge jet intake valve to jet propel the leviathan through the atmosphere of the gas giant.  When at rest, the Guide floats like a balloon, Aerial Whales are neutrally buoyant.  The pumpkin-shaped floaters are envisioned by Stephen Hawking and may feed on the lightning storms that constantly rage on gas giants.


The Guide (Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide For Earthlings)

 

Jupiter Floaters (Stephen Hawking's Into The Universe)

If life forms that live in the atmospheres of gas giants are possible, it would show how tenacious life can really be in the cosmos.  However, this does not excuse violating the laws of physics.  To say that life on Earth is the only life in the universe is inexcusably big-headed because 1) the universe is so vast and 2) organic matter is abundant throughout the cosmos.  The Guide can easily knock out the Sando Aqua Monster with its deafening roar from those two vocal boxes!  Jupiter Floaters can crush Sando Aqua Monsters like insects.  Stephen Hawkins' Floaters thrive in constant lightning while a Sando Aqua Monster would perish in lightning.  Jupiter Hunters can swoop and swallow Sando Aqua Monsters whole!   Gas Giant Life is victorious over planet core life on all fronts, this is in fact a shut out where planet core life such as Sando Aqua Monsters have their score end at ZERO while gas giant life such as Jupiter Floaters actually score points!  The Guide will befriend the sexy effeminate Colo Claw Fish and all hail to the glorious dodecahedron!

Back Story: From Sunday March 21 to Sunday, August 8, 1999 for twenty weeks, my Orion II was taken away in an attempt to foist Star Wars onto me.  In April 1999, I got fascinated with the Jupiter Floaters and Hunters and by the end  of that month the people around me took away my floaters as part of the aforementioned effort to get me to like Star Wars by stripping me of all of my defenses.  Then on Saturday, May 22, 1999, I saw TPM for the first time in theaters and my subconscious was upset with the underwater scene and this feeling was suppressed until Saturday, March 20, 2004.  This having the Jupiter Floaters taken away only to be exposed to the Sando Aqua Monster is what really made me so angry.  Had I not had my Jupiter Floaters and/or did not have my Orion II taken away, I would have taken Colo Claw Fish under my wing in my mind without even mentioning Sando Aqua Monsters, even in jest.

Colo Claw Fish



The Dodecahedron

Please watch the above video to further understand how I feel on this topic.  Then watch the video below for information on my Colo Claw Fish & Project Orion II Psychological Unity.

The Deep Meaning of Project Orion II

Inthis post I will talk about the deepmeaning behind Project Orion II whcih is to proote peace between nations that were once bitter enemies and unity.  This is also the meaning of my positive feelings towards Colo Claw Fish.  The image below is a Colo Claw Fish and the video below that is a video about the future of Russia by the year 2042.  In the past starting right after World War II, America and Russia were hostile  enemies towards one another in a situation known as the Cold War that lasted until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.  One of the worst aspects of the Cold War was a nuclear arms race that endangandered our civilization.  Starting in October 1957 when the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite around Earth known as Sputnik, the USA and the CCCP were competing in a competition known as the space race.  The Soviets  put the first human  into orbit, Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.  In response  to this,  the USA decided to go to the moon to overtake the CCCP and barely did.  The Soviets had manned moon rockets that were more complex than the Saturn V called the N-1, which all of the test launches of the N-1 failed.  On July 20, 1969, Neil Aldin Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin of the American NASA moon mission known as Apollo 11 became the first humans to set foot on another world.  Back in those days, the space program was about competition and trying to be first.  In the 1980s the Soviet economy was in shambles  and there was this nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in the year 1986 that set into motion an end to Cold War hostilities and the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.  Since 1998, America and Russia have been  cooperating in a project  known as the International Space Station.

I am worried that there are some Americans who are living in the past and living in the Cold War such as Newt Gingrich and John McCain.  The Right Wing when they talk about the space program say that they want to have an all-American moon base and an all-American manned Mars mission and want America to be first in those feats, proof positive that those buffoons are living in the past and being nationalistic zealots.  One problem in Russia today is Vladimir Putin who was the president of Russia and later resigned tobecome Prime Minister of Russia.  Putin was a Soviet and a member of the infamous secret police force known as the KGB.

I am strongly hopng that we will move past scourges like nationalism, obsessive militarism, outright competition, and injstice.  Inspired by the Velvet Rocket web page on Project Daedalus, I too am upset  about how our efforts of pushing the envelope and seizing boldness have been smothered by a lazy culture  of "why bother".  I say that we have  tolerated this lazy pernicious culture of ignorance and fear for way too long and that it is time for us to unite and seize upon greatness.  If we choose to live in the past like Newt Gingrich does, we will have no future and today is the past.  It is time to get out of our comfy zone and start working towards developing the great Project Orion II insterstellar probe.  Technology is changing and an acclerated rate and more and more planets are being detected around other stars and we are getting closer and closer to finding a planet like Earth.

My GLORIOUS Escape From Star Wars

Hello, I am going to talk about my celebrated escape from Star Wars in a starship of the mind.  But before I get started, let me tell you about a little something called indecision, meaning when it is difficult to make decisions.  I have always had some irking problems with Star Wars ever since I first heard of the franchise in 1990 and 1991.  I seriously tried to enjoy Star Wars since 1994 and this brings  up a series  of obsessive problems that was based on indecision since Friday, Christmas Day, December 25, 1998 when I got a Star Wars Nintendo64 video game called Rogue Squadron instead of a LEGO set that I wanted.  Between Christmas 1998 and Fat Tuesday 1999, I had a difficult time making a decison on whether I should play Rogue Squadron or get rid of it, I should have said that I do not want it.  On Fat Tuesday, February 16, 1999,  I lost  it and  started  what I call the Orion Crisis and came up with the Project Orion II concept in the morning of two days later on Thursday, February 18, 1999.  I continued to have indecision on whether to like Star Wars or to just dislike Star Wars without obsessive issues, I should have chosen the latter.  I had my Orion II taken away for twenty weeks solid from Sunday, March 21, 1999 until Sunday, August 8, 1999 for my hating Star Wars, and even there, the indecision was there on whether I should get over not liking Star Wars or have a healthy dislike of Star Wars, I should have chosen a healthy dislike of Star Wars and I still would have got my Orion II back when I did, maybe sooner.  This indecision more than the taking away of my Orion II is what ultimately sent me into a mental calamity featuring unwanted obsessions and hardships  in my academic life that took me many years to undo.  Had I made the right decision and/or did nto have my Orion II taken away, I wuold have never seen Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (TPM).  TPM first  opened in theaters on Wednesday, May 19, 1999 and is scheduled for a RealD 3D re-relese in theaters on the follwing Friday, February 10, 2012.  I would have still been able to discover Colo Claw Fish by looking in a book on the art of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace while looking around in a bookstore that I went with my foster family to.  At that time in my life, I still would have been curious even if I was not going to see the film itself.  There I would have decided to imagine a starship that could help me take Colo Claw Fish under my wing in late 1999.

Now I will talk about how I finally arrived at this decision, by learning from someone I know by asking on how to solve indecision in general.  To solve indecision, one must first weigh the pors and cons, and if the pros and cons are even, weigh each pro or con with something like a one to ten scale.  After weighing the options, then yo must  make a decision and not question that decision as well as going along with your gut feeling on whatever particular issue you are having indecision with.  This is exactly how I finally after all of these over thirteen years on Monday, February 6, 2012 solved my Star Wars-related indecision and made a stable final decision.  So I will imagine myself on an epic cosmic departure from Star Wars in which I take Colo Claw Fish with me in a starship of the mind.

As the Dodecahedron Union of Orion's Arm (DUOA) leaves Star Wars once and for all and takes the entire Colo Claw Fish population with them in a fleet of interstellar transports that are modified to carry Colo Claw Fish.  The DUOA is an interstellar civilization spitting image of me, largely because my symbol is the dodecahedron.  So when I walk away from the Star Wars franchise, I take Colo Claw Fish with me in my mind.  I will enjoy Carl Sagan's Contact, James Cameron's Avatar, and Star Trek instead of Star Wars.


Colo Claw Fish



Bussard Ramjet: Colo Claw Fish Carrier



Colo Claw Fish Carrier at non-relativistic velocities



Colo Claw Fish Carrier at relativistic velocities



Wormhole leading back to the Milky Way



Alpha Centauri: A new home for Colo Claw Fish

 The above picture series sums up my permanent departure from Star Wars beautifully.  I will dislike Star Wars until the day that I die.

Why I Don't Like Star Wars

Hello; this is Project Orion II's Chief Designer, and I have to tell you this.  I seriously don't like Star Wars because it has some aspects that irk me to behavioral problems, I am NOT joking.  Don't you DARE tell me that I have to get psychological or medical attention or that I have to see a doctor.  I have had many years of deliberation through intense out-patient therapy since 2002 and intense self-examination since the end of 2004 to arrive at the conclusion that I really dislike Star Wars.  I have a few nitpicks that really irk me about Star Wars, one of those irritating nitpicks being in the prequels.  The one nitpick that bothers me the most is my only nitpick in the Star Wars Prequels, it is the underwater scene in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (TPM).  When I saw a Sando Aqua Monster torturing and then eating a Colo Claw Fish, I was furious.  I was especially ticked off at the fact that the film GLORIFIED the sadistic act as a means of saving Quin-Gonn Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Jar Jar Binks!  However, I refuse to claim that Quin-Gonn, Obi-Wan and Jar Jar are evil all because of that one nitpick and this is a serious lesson for imbeciles like Confused Matthew who think that Simba, Timon, & Pumbaa are evil all because of nitpicks that they have about The Lion King.  I also don't like the concept of the Force since it is a metaphor for blind faith in general that totally ignores the evils of superstition and it is a lazy cop-out to evade the need to work hard to solve difficult problems.  The Force is no nitpick, it is a key story element and plot device in Star Wars as in "May the Force be with you" and "The Force will be with you, always."  Star Wars is ultra unrealistic and has way too much handwavium and I cannot suspend my disbelief or tolerate the astronomical amount of unrealism in the films since it makes me very insecure as a highly educated person.

Some vocal Star Wars fans think that they and Star Wars are better than those who are different and treat it like a religion.  Star Wars apologists will disrespectfully attack anyone who shoots down anything having to do with Star Wars.  Star Trek is often a target of outrage by Star Wars supremacists, especially Star Wars extremists who accuse Star Trek of promoting racism, oppression, and communism.  These idiots act just  like Confused Matthew did in his brain-damaged review of The Lion King.  However, Star Trek is NOT the only target by Star Wars extremists, there are non-Star Trek victims of this Star Wars extremism such as James Cameron's Titanic and Avatar.  Some Star Wars extremists such as Radith87 have genocidal fantasies such as the Death Star destroying Pandora to punish Avatar for overtaking Star Wars in the box office.  Although I despise Sando Aqua Monsters, I refuse to have any genocidal fantasies against  Sando Aqua Monsters, especially about planet busters such as the Bugle snack-shaped Doomsday Machine destroying Naboo because I value life way too much to even fantasize about playing god, let alone to advocate playing god or to play god.

To set an example for old school Star Wars fanatics who are railing against the changes in the Star Wars films that they don't like, I will walk away from this franchise and take Colo Claw Fish with me in a starship of the mind.  Some Star Wars fanatics are upset that George Lucas put changes in Star Wars that they did not like such as the character of Jar Jar Binks who receives a lot of hatred.  Those people need to walk away from Star Wars if they don't like the changes in it, that is exactly what I am doing in response to things that I despise about Star Wars such as Sando Aqua Monsters torturing Colo Claw Fish before  eating them.

I also enjoy Star Trek even though it has a share of handwavium, but Star Trek's handwavium is far less than that found in Star Wars as would be shown in the following video.  Star Trek has inspired  many of  its  fans  to become scientists and engineers and has ties to both the space program and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), as far as I know the same cannot be said for Star Wars.  Star Trek has  inspired many inventions including cell phones and SETI at home, Star Wars did not inspire such feats.

One of the most scientifically accurate science fiction films is James Cameron's Avatar which features  the ISV Venture Star that has a starship design based on reality.  Check out Realistic Designs for more information on the ISV Venture Star.  Avatar is now my all time favorite movie along with Carl Sagan's Contact.


ISV Venture Star (Avatar)

In fact, the ISV Venture Star as it turns out is another great design that can also serve as a Colo Claw Fish Carrier.



Scale Size Comparison of our Sun and the three stars in Alpha Centauri.

 I speculate that if there are habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri Star System, that Colo Claw Fish will probably live there and be a real alien species only living 4.37 light-years away from Earth instead of in a galaxy far, far away.  I believe that Colo Claw Fish are a real alien animal, but they would live above the basalt oceanic crust of their real home world instead of in the core for obvious reasons.


Colo Claw Fish

I will enjoy Star Trek instead of Star Wars as you will be able to tell by the video below.  The only two science fiction stories that I like more than Star Trek are Avatar and Contact.

My Project Orion II YouTube Video

Colo Claw Fish Protector Interstellar

I am very protective of a 40m long sexy Star Wars eel called a Colo Claw Fish to the point of even envisioning Colo Claw Fish-carrying spacecraft.  The inventory of possible designs for Colo Claw Fish protector ships to use from this post are all realistic starship designs. Check out Atomic Rockets for more information on suggestions for realistic starship designs.  Although I am immune to nay sayers on the topic of interstellar travel, I will refuse to ignore the laws of physics or dignify any asinine comments promoting outright handwavium wishful thinking.  Colo Claw Fish might be real and inhabiting Earth-like planets and/or moons in nearby star systems such as Alpha Centauri 4.37 light-years away and Tau Ceti 11.9 light-years away since they happen to be a realistic alien design.  Colo Claw Fish have a slow digestive system and can even hibernate, and it could  be possible to have such an eel be put into suspended animation and safely into cryogenic freeze.  Ice crystals do destry cells so real animals that do cryogenics for hibernation such as the wetta have a special fluid to protect cells form being destroyed.

Colo Claw Fish

Project Orion II is not large enough nor efficient enough to transport Colo Claw Fish in deep space; believe me, you would definitely need higher starships to ply deep space with any Colo Claw Fish onboard.  This blog has a list of realistic possibilities.

The first option that I will cover for use as a Colo Claw Fish Carrier is the Antimatter Beamcore Rocket which uses a more potent source of fuel than fusion known as antimatter.  When matter and antimatter collide, they release pure energy and is totally efficient.  Antimatter rockets can reach speeds of half the speed of light or more, making it a candidate for an interstellar transport for Colo Claw Fish.  The huge drawback to antimatter rockets is the massive gamma radiation associated with matter-antimatter reactions and the astronomical expensiveness of creating usable amounts of antimatter with what we have today.  There are also other options to choose from.


Antimatter Beamcore Rocket

Another option and one of my favorite candidates for a starship to transport Colo Claw Fish is the Bussard Ramjet named for the physicist who designed it in 1960, Dr. Robert W Bussard.  The Bussard Ramjet is also known as a fusion ramjet or an interstellar ramjet and would harness the exact same type of proton-proton chain that powers main sequence stars like the Sun for propulsion.  A Bussard Ramjet would have a massive frontal ram scoop with field wires to collect hydrogen atoms that float in interstellar space.  The Bussard Ramjet  would  probably need  to carry sufficient enough on board propellant to accelerate it to two percent of the speed of light before being able to collect enough interstellar hydrogen to keep its engine  humming.  Drawbacks to the Bussard Ramjet  include the difficulty of harnessing proton-proton fusion, not even Dr Bussard knew how to build it, and a need for huge advancements in physics and engineering  knowledge.  The Bussard Ramjet will continue to receive further study even after Robert Bussard's death in 2007.  SO far, the Bussard Ramjet is the best option for relativistic space travel and being able to ply interstellar space with Colo Claw Fish on board.


Bussard Ramjet: Most Likely Colo Claw Fish Carrier

Now I will talk about handwavium.  Handwavium is anything that flat out violates physics.  Faster than light (FTL) in its various forms if an epitome of handwavium.  Any spacecraft design that ignores thermodynamics such as stealth in space is also handwavium.  Check out Atomic Rockets' Preliminary Notes, Common Misconceptions and Respecting Science web pages for more information.  Even though I am immune to nay sayers who say that we will never reach the stars and am a firm champion of  future interstellar travel, I solemnly refuse to ignore the laws of physics or dignify any pro-handwavium wishful thinking.

Handwavium is anything that flat out violates the laws of physics



Space is NOT an ocean

Space is NOT an ocean and is instead three dimensional.  Spacecraft can move in any direction or angle that they want to indefinitely.  There is noting wrong with two Colo Claw Fish Carriers being "upside down" with respect to one another since the is no specific "up" or "down" in space.

Starships are  NOT boats

Starships will not have their decks laid out like that of ocean-going vessels, this rampant misconception is an outgrowth of the aforementioned "space is an ocean" fallacy.  A starship would have the internal arrangement like that of a skyscraper, and this is how a Colo Claw Fish Carrier would be arranged.  The only direction of motion that a Colo Claw  Fish Carrier will have with respect to itself  is "up" with the exhaust always pointing "down".  When a Colo Claw Fish Carrier decelerates, it will fly backwards with its exhaust shooting in the direction the ship is moving, just like any other realistic spacecraft including Project Orion II.

There is NO stealth in space

The reason that  there is no stealth in space is due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, you will find that any arguments that one can muster in favor of space stealth have been brought up and shot down many times before.  Your heat signature would be a stealth destroying beacon, even the exhaust from the space shuttles thrusters can be detected from Pluto.


Sorry Sulaco, there ain't no stealth in space

FTL is an epitome of handwavium due to Albert Einstein's theory of Special Relativity which was first published in 1905 when Einstein was working as a young Swiss patten clerk.  Henrich Antoon Lorentz's equations known as the Lorentz Transformations like Special Relativity explain exactly why it is impossible to accelerate an object to or beyond the speed of light.  First of all, as you accelerate closer and closer to light speed, your mass increases, secondly your length decreases, and thirdly time slows down as you approach the cosmic speed limit.


Albert Einsten and his E=mc2: Special Relativity

Although FTL is handwavium, there is an alternative which is one theoretical possibility of taking a shortcut,  it is the warp drive that was used as a key plot device in Star Trek.  Warp Theory has been worked out by theoretical physicists such as Miguel Alcubierre.  Negative Energy and Dark Energy do exist and are real.  We are many centuries from having  a warp drive because it would take a quantum leap in our understanding of dark energy as well as in our physics and engineering knowledge.  Warp drive would require negative energy equal to Jupiter.  There are also risks attached to warp drive, a possibility of turning the ship into plasma and creating causality headaches is one of them.  Another risk that I have taken into serious consideration is that the warp bubble must be stable or else it would collapses, crushing the ship, killing the occupants, and maybe creating an artificial black hole.  I would only want to send Colo Claw Fish in a warp-powered starship if the warp drive is perfected and the warp bubble is stabilized.  If the USS Enterprise were real, it would probably look like the Warpship image below.  The thing that distinguishes warp drive form FTL is that your destination comes to you.  Warp drive would work in principle by expanding space behind you and contracting space in front of you, having space push and pull you along.


Warpship: A model for a realistic Starship Enterprise

Even Warp Drive will have its limitations to reasonable travel times within one galaxy, so it alone is not ideal for transporting Colo Claw Fish from Naboo in a galaxy far far away to a nearby star system in our own galaxy.  However, warp drive is one of those things that could open the door to an even far more spectacular possibility, wormholes.  There are tiny wormholes all around us and this has been worked out by physicists such as Stephen Hawking and Kip Throne.  But the catch is expanding those wormholes to being wide enough for people, Colo Claw Fish, and even starships to pass through and this would take enormous amounts of energy such as dark energy.  The danger is the risk that the wormhole would close while you pass through it, so it must be perfected before I am willing to send anyone through it.  The wormhole is ideal for getting Colo Claw Fish from Naboo in a distant galaxy to a star system that is next door to us in our own galaxy.


Wormhole

This post was an excellent attempt to put realism in an extreme hypothetical regarding space travel.  I was willing to envision starships that can carry Colo Claw Fish while plying the distances in interstellar space, but I was unwilling to ignore the laws of physics.