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To: Conan the Librarian
if we don’t start moving life off this rock and find some new rocks to live on

Without artificial gravity of some type and a propulsion system that reaches speeds in the 100,000 mi/sec range, we are going nowhere. Currently artificial gravity is sci fi and top velocity is 10 mi/sec. But with billions of years, we have time. lol

13 posted on 03/08/2016 10:16:56 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Phlap

Then we are doomed.

(Actually, I feel that as soon as someone figures out how to make money off of space travel, the exodus will begin and, even if we have to use generation ships, we’ll get off Earth)


14 posted on 03/08/2016 10:19:00 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Phlap

Artificial gravity isn’t sci-fi, it’s an ancient principle. Tie a bucket onto a rope and swing it around your head. Centripetal force isn’t new. Just have to make the rotating piece big enough in diameter to keep the angular velocity down and keep people from getting motion sickness.


19 posted on 03/08/2016 12:47:18 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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