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To: KevinDavis
2 posted on
09/10/2007 11:33:53 AM PDT by
JamesP81
To: LibWhacker
Does this mean I can go home now?
*shifty eyes*
3 posted on
09/10/2007 11:34:02 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
To: LibWhacker
An amplified photon thruster... I wonder if you could make a torpedo out of that thing?
Sorry, I had to say it.
To: LibWhacker
35 µN? That ain’t a lot of cookies....................
5 posted on
09/10/2007 11:35:31 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: LibWhacker
So, after testing and all, it may be ready for use in like the year 29,4701.
6 posted on
09/10/2007 11:36:23 AM PDT by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: LibWhacker
...For example, PLT-powered spacecraft could transit the 100 million km to Mars in less than a week.” ...How many G's would you be pulling?
7 posted on
09/10/2007 11:36:36 AM PDT by
FReepaholic
(Vini ,Vidi, VD: I Came, I Saw, I Cankered)
To: LibWhacker
A spacecraft travelling at those speeds will need:
1. A pebble deflector
2. A lot of braking power.
Launch 'em.
8 posted on
09/10/2007 11:36:50 AM PDT by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: LibWhacker
photonic laser thruster (PLT) Sort of like an oscillation overthruster? YoYoDyne Propulsion Labs, standing by.
9 posted on
09/10/2007 11:37:31 AM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: LibWhacker
The micromotor could get a micropayload to Mars in a week. If they bolt a hundred million together they could get a one pound payload to Mars in a week.
11 posted on
09/10/2007 11:39:28 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: LibWhacker
The 'Bae Thruster' principle has been a staple of science [fiction] for 60 years.
Gotta love that name.
21 posted on
09/10/2007 11:53:39 AM PDT by
tpaine
(" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
To: LibWhacker
Fact is that while we can theoretically build spacecraft that go at amazing speeds, we are always going to be limited in how fast we can go due to risk of collision with objects.
Picture how difficult it is to swerve around objects on the highway at high rates of speed. Now apply that to space only you are moving at much faster rate of speed. Even a tiny piece of space junk the size of a marble can be lethal to a spacecraft moving at a very high rate of speed.
So unless we can develop some kind of sophisticated radar that can allow our spacecraft to see these objects millions of miles away and automatically make slight corrections in course to avoid these tiny objects or unless we develop an exterior to the spacecraft that is impervious to collisions at high rates of speed, we are going to continue to be limited in how fast we can go in space.
What we really need to focus on is teleportation.
25 posted on
09/10/2007 12:02:23 PM PDT by
SamAdams76
(I am 77 days away from outliving Freddie Mercury)
To: LibWhacker
The look outside your window:
27 posted on
09/10/2007 12:06:20 PM PDT by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: LibWhacker
30 posted on
09/10/2007 12:23:04 PM PDT by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: AntiKev
Ping to you. Wonder if it would break any glasses?
36 posted on
09/10/2007 12:38:49 PM PDT by
Former Proud Canadian
(How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
To: LibWhacker
This is WAY too cool to be true.
39 posted on
09/10/2007 12:59:32 PM PDT by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: LibWhacker
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
What’s REALLY important is the carbon signature of this thing. Until we know that, we won’t know how many offsets will be needed...
40 posted on
09/10/2007 1:00:09 PM PDT by
43north
(I hope we are around long enough to become a layer in the rocks of the future.)
To: LibWhacker
The bad news is it works just like the flux capaciter and requires 1.26 gigawatts to run.
41 posted on
09/10/2007 1:02:32 PM PDT by
DungeonMaster
(John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?)
To: ShasheMac; brityank; Forest Keeper; swatbuznik; Potts Mtn. Pappy; Kevmo; wastedyears; ...
45 posted on
09/10/2007 6:30:57 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08)
To: LibWhacker
Once you go warp, you’ll never look back.
50 posted on
09/10/2007 7:14:44 PM PDT by
toddlintown
(Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: timer; Shuttle Shucker
Feel like weighing in? ;)
55 posted on
09/10/2007 7:55:57 PM PDT by
anymouse
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