Posted on 11/24/2012 1:33:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ah yes, but the emergency requires the evacuation of the entire Earth’s population of 5 billion people and the newborn. At the rate of your teleporter’s 2,200 people per hour, you’ll require more than 311 years to evacuate this 6 billion plus population or 311 of these teleporters or more for one year. This assumes of course the TSA screening and union work stoppages are not included in the estimates....
Can’t we just evacuate the conservatives?
Even if you limit the evacuees to 56 million U.S. conservatives, that only gets you down to 3 years transport time. If the threat is an ELE (Extinction Level Event) type asteroid coming from outside the Solar ecliptic from interstellar space, the detection and warning could be as little as months, days, days, or less.
Without the instantaneous teleporter you can see how impossible the situation can be.
As long as I go tenth.... because they gotta work out the kinks... I’ll be okay with it.
Of possible interest to the ping list.
Nuclear-pulse engines would produce the plasma to propel the ship..
Deadelus needed to be large (54,000 tons) since its mission was to go to Barnard's Star.
Vasimr (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) engines are another kettle of fish entirely: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/01vasimr/
Vasimr engines produce plasma via argon gas, electricity, super-conducting magnets, and a nuclear powered generator.
Vasimr engines are small and are at development stage 6, with stage 7 flight test in the next few years.
A 39 day trip to Mars would require a ship similar in size to a 747 jumbo.
Ad Astra Rocket is the main developer with NASA:
http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/
Re: There would be no G-forces inside of the bubble
Exactly!!
Gravity. It bends space-time like a bowling ball on a big sheet of rubber. How do you generate the gravity? Hellifino.
"Here officer, hold my beer, and watch this"...then zoom away in your modified space vehicle at 30 billion times the speed of light...muahahahahaha!
I am waiting for the discovery that all worm holes begin and end at Mecca.
then we shall shoot are weapons into said wormholes...
Genesis bomb? ;-D
“A bubble?”
“A bubble.”
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