Rosinante Project - Sunnydale MU

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The Faculty of Cosmology of Sunnydale MU, in tandem with its Department of Astrophysics is proud to bring you the latest updates on the "Rosinante Project". This pioneering effort is the fruit of decades of painstaking research & unrelenting labour. Finally the secrets of the conjectured singularity of Cygnus X-1 in the Deneb cluster can be analysed with reliable equipment. The celebrated prototype probe Oculus Vacui was recently launched successfully from the rocket Rosinante and we wait in anticipation for the results of its first test data from the event horizon.

Congratulations are due to Prof. M. VanDriel of the Temporal Mechanics wing of the Faculty of Cosmology and his research team for the construction of the amazing new prototype space-time probe. The probe's innate ability to warp the very fabric of time & space has allowed us to anticipate the retrieval of the first images from the Oculus to less than five weeks after its initial launch. Amazing! Deep gratitude is also to be expressed to the generous donations of Miskatoncorp and the Foundatione di Norm Internationale which have underwritten the enormous cost of this worthwhile project.

To whet your appetite here's a picture from Sunnydale's own John Carter Memorial Airfield of the launch of The Rosinante with the space-time probe Oculus Vacui on board on Sept. 19, 1998. A day soon to be marked in the annals of science!

The Oculis Vacui (seen below) is state of the art space-time technology.

Prof. VanDriel speaks on some of the principles behind his amazing achievement:

"Well, I used the pioneering theories of R. D. Young, the famous 19th century Meta-chronal Theorist
as a basis for my work. In essence, we used the hypothesized Minowski light cone (fig. 1)
as the template for our space-time drive. We of course needed a great source of gravitational
energy in order for the probe to generate the necessary rotational momentum to open a helical
path in the space-time continuum. (fig. 2) Thus the happy coincidence of the Cygnus X-1 singularity.
By travelling through this path at the proper critical angle, the probe is able to slide into the past
to any point which we choose.
Since the actual journey of the probe to Cygnus X-1 will take an estimated 1600 years (with its
trans-light drive), we of course selected a figure of 3199 + 20 years for the probe's re-entry
into real space near the singularity. Thus it will in effect be able to use its laser communications
array to send data to us which will seem to be almost instantaneous. In an interesting aside, we
are not only creating our own space-time paradox, but added the extra 20 years so that the data
we have long since received would be available to provide sufficient proof for our funding (first
supplied 20 years ago) to be forthcoming!"

To see greater detail on the Young-VanDriel time-loop, go here.