Posted on 03/24/2016 2:41:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s the same theory you should use if you ever found yourself on a falling elevator...be sure to jump before the bottom.
Traveling at the speed of light if you hit anything at that speed, even a dust particle, would be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off.
The writer does not have a clue about what he’s talking about. Time dilation from our frame of reference, would occur on the spacecraft not on Earth. He needs to back to writing children’s books.
What happens if you order thick crust?
Lou Malnati’s is going to have to up it’s game.
I hadn't heard of that one. Kennedy wanted a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade, which was accomplished. I remember watching the live broadcast of the first Moon landing with my dad, who died a couple years later. It was amazing that he went from an era common with horses, he started driving a Model-T, then used the first radios, then the first TVs, capped by a landing on the Moon - all in his lifetime. I heard projections of getting a man on Mars by 1987. Now we can't even build bridges without Chinese help (most components of our rebuilt SF-Oakland bridge were built in China and shipped here), let alone get into space without Russian help. Sigh...
one of many (search for Project Orion; click on a video - not to be confused with NASA’s lame capsule of the same name)
Project Orion: A Re-Imagining (old)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vKMTYa40A
To Mars By A Bomb - The Secret History of Project Orion (Nuclear Propulsion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoLcJuBtOw
Orion was to be interstellar as well as intersystem; the bigger it was the better it worked; crews would be in the hundreds; vehicle was to be surrounded by water to shield crew from radiation; hot showers for all every day; and so on.
If the hildabeast gets elected, count me in. Might be more fun! Big chance to get away from it all, you know... can't be any worse. Can I bring my own weapons?
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