There’s just one tiny little problem about space travel...fuel. Minor, detail, I guess.
“There’s just one tiny little problem about space travel...fuel.”
Star light. I consulted with the Messiah.
Well yes, that is a problem if your mind is fixed on some sort of engine which consumes fuel, however... just suppose we could design some way to twist a wrinkle into the local space time and just surf down the wave front. As we slid down the wave we would drag the device as well as the wave along with us.
The use of fuel to sustain flight is just a convenience. People have been flying gliders since before the Write Brothers. People have flown for hours and covered considerable distances using nothing but shifting densities of the atmosphere brought on by temperature gradients (electric fields interacting with magnetic fields already permeating space?).
Solar sails? Why not?
We need designers who can think outside the box...
Regards,
GtG