Posted on 03/24/2016 2:41:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sometimes you could see the wire...and I think the smoke trail was a piece of Chesterfield or Pall Mall...
Only going to take about a year to get that laser installed on Mars. No biggie.
Now, the guys traveling to install one at Alpha Centauri, taking hundreds/thousands of years to get there, will not only be annoyed that subsequent travelers will need about 5 years to travel as planned (and perceive only days in the process), but will be quite annoyed to find their generations-later offspring have already gotten there and long settled using relatively futuristic technology.
Not to mention ozone holes...
Intercept trajectory will provide the stop just fine. Added bonus of a light show no extra charge.
~12,000?
DJT like the others has no manned deep space plan - not even a LEO one, nada, nichevo, zip.
We were all fans back then until Nixon killed the whole thing to shore up his imperial presidency.
Actually, it was “Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970.” But in a major failure of political will Project Orion was killed by the above would-be-king.
Deep space now belongs to the Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians. Navel gazing belongs to the US.
Any projectile at .25 lights is an up-rated version of a rail gun round.
Ignoring the starting and ending speeds of the planets, it would take between 33.8 and 91.7 hours depending on where Earth and Mars are in their orbits.
time = 2 * sqrt(distance / acceleration) derived from the formula for constant acceleration in one direction d= 0.5*a*t^2
You got 12,000 g’s, I get 40,000. Puree either way!
I used at^2/2 = 40 billion meters, and t = 100 sec (a bit over 15 minutes). You might be more careful about the Earth to Mars distance. And, this is a great place to say, “YMMV”.
Wafer thin spaceships are so useful, too.
The time of flight is estimated from our viewpoint. The time in the spaceship would be shorter.
“I dont see how he expects to go faster than light.”
You jump on a lightwave and start running forward.
As soon as I read “faster than the speed of light,” I thought of the B-52s...and with the link you provided, I heard the Planet Clair song. Thanks guy. That helped to make my day. Back in the mid 70s I worked in a college avenue Restaurant. Athens, Ga. Keith and Ricky (future B-52s guys) and their friends would arrive at 2:00 pm and get 15 cent iced tea with free refills and sit at the long table near the south facing window. And then 45 minutes later they would all get up and go forth with their days activities. If you lived in Athens back then you would get the humor of the B-52s and of course lots of non-Athens Ga. People liked the humor as well. Thanks
If my Relativity calculations are correct, at 26% the speed of light
If it takes 30 minutes from the POV of the space craft than 31 Minutes 4 seconds passed on Earth.
If it takes 30 minutes from the POV of the Earth than only 28 Minutes 53 seconds passed on space craft.
So I have no idea what this guy is talking about decades going by
Minor detail.
If my math is correct, reaching 26 percent of the speed of light in 10 minutes equals about 13,247 “g’s”. Good luck with that. The numbers here are so ridiculous, how did anyone even print this — and that is not even counting “faster than the speed of light”.
Now there you go, doing the math! How crude! ;-D
Yeah, just how much can you improve upon a three month trip by extending it by a few decades? He also didn't mention the suction lasers needed to slow that communion wafer down at the other end.
He makes my head hurt ... because nobody will whack him for me.
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