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Posted on 10/03/2012 3:52:03 PM PDT by Dallas59
There's a hierarchy of "Star Trek" inventions we would like to see become reality. We already have voice-controlled computers and communicators in the form of smartphones. A working Holodeck is under development. Now, how about we get some impulse engines for our starships?
The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Aerophysics Research Center, NASA, Boeing, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are collaborating on a project to produce nuclear fusion impulse rocket engines. It's no warp drive, but it would get us around the galaxy a lot quicker than current technologies.
According to Txchnologist, the scientists are hoping to make impulse drive a reality by 2030. It would be capable of taking a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in as little as six weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...
“All of a sudden, there’s an asteroid right in front of us.....what to do? “
Make sure we have insurance with Prudential...so we can get a piece of the rock.
If you can accelerate continuously, then you have to decelerate at some point -— starting at approximately the half-way point between the start and your destination. Ideally, you can just turn yourself around and point the rocket in the opposite direction.
Unless you can decelerate using some other means, like aero-braking.
Fine....go to Mars in six weeks.....your luggage went to Venus and you won’t see it for five years. Your underwear is going to be pretty stinky. Then, you’ll see some real fights.
I always thought that was a space burrito.
OK, you guys like Star Trek.
Our moon program came during the greatest era of prosperity in the greatest nation on earth with people trained in sciences with work ethics.
Today, money spent on NASA is spent on political clap-trap. Our nation is nowhere near what we were during the height of national strength and resolve. Forty years of national decay and staggering debt have changed the fundamental meaning of what being American means for, what may prove, a majority of our fellow citizens.
Don’t think so? Tell me all about your trip to Mars in four more years.
BTW, if America does go under . . . the lights go out everywhere.
I never claimed I would be on a trip to Mars in four more years. You however claimed that civilization is about to be snuffed out.
If that's the case then you should be able to provide a time frame. Or are you practicing your own version of science fiction, albeit a dystopian one?
The moon program came as the world was ending with communists taking over the world, the Vietnam War and morality was decaying in the '60s.
I remember those years and the 'end of civilization' crowd.
We create more real wealth today than ever before. We feed more people than ever before. We live longer, we live better. By every measure, life has improved since the '60s. Those were NOT the good old days.
/johnny
I claim no more than an opinion. So, too, do scientists puffing their grants,
Make sure we have insurance with Prudential...so we can get a piece of the rock.
Actually, a better plan is to buy a one billion dollar life insurance policy from Lloyds; then you don't have to worry, they'll make sure nothing happens to you.
We’ve had fission engines since the 1960’s. Those went nowhere.
I do not despair and neither do I believe silly headlines. Faith in God implies belief in an end to all earthly things. I believe there is more evidence for that outcome than anything like Mars travel.
I remember those years, too. Communism was not ascendant. The love of freedom was common and America was strong and essentially united on the belief of our just cause. Politicians gave away Viet Nam - not Americans. Decades of agitation and propaganda do not dim my recollections.
Actually real wealth is sourced from natural resources and, on that account, we produce less and less each year even if our consumption goes up at the cost of our seed corn. If you believe in fictional basis for wealth - as in information and service economies, then, yes, creative accounting allows for more dollars in our GDP. However, debased currency may put that willow-the-wisp to rest as well.
Yes, tis true we produce more food than ever before, but I would have to disagree that we live better and I think by most measures we have lost, rather than gained, ground.
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Those are the guys that put man on the moon, they have street cred.
We do more and more with less and less resources, increasing the wealth from fewer natural resources by being conservative, and wasting less.
Crime is actually down, if you look at the stats, and ignore the media.
In the '60s, concealed firearms were not legal in my state. Today, they are.
Fortunately, your belief in any technological breakthrough isn't required for it to happen.
/johnny
The guys that put a man on the moon are in nursing homes. For that matter, the guy that set foot on the moon is dead. Academics, in the pride of themselves, are as silly as the next class of people. Higher vision is needed and, currently, we lack that.
We HAVE more with less work because we are selling our birthright and we exploit the labor of others around the world. We make bargains with devils for the sake of a cheeseburger or two. Bon apetit!
Crime is down due, currently to aging population, boomer transition, and 2A issues - none of which have anything to do with Maritians.
Unfortunately, our progress and blessing rested in God’s mercy. We do little to deserve that today and our past glories are frail foundations for living in scientific fictions.
Readers of Tintin books would recognize that exact scenario from the Explorers on the Moon volume.
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
SPACE.com | 2012-09-17 | Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 09/17/2012 10:28:10 AM PDT by justlurking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2932384/posts
Thank you. I was wondering if anyone would point this out. Space is not a total vacuum. Now, imagine something the size of a softball.
I think the reaction they arebshootin for produces aneutronic energy, with effectively no waste, if I recall, as the energy I’d directly converted to electricity.
Wow.
Typing on my phone. Ugh. “Are shooting for...”
Typing on my phone. Ugh. “Are shooting for...”
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