Posted on 09/11/2009 11:44:36 AM PDT by blueglass
Scientists in the US are trying to map the twisting "tubes" so they can be used to cut the cost of space travel.
Each one acts like a gravitational version of the Gulf Stream, created from the complex interplay of forces between planets and moons. Depicted by computer graphics, the pathways can look like strands of spaghetti that wrap around planetary bodies and snake between them.
The pathways connect sites called Lagrangian points where gravitational forces balance out.
Professor Shane Ross, from Virginia Tech university, said: "The idea is there are low energy pathways winding between planets and moons that would slash the amount of fuel needed to explore the solar system.
"These are freefall pathways in space around and between gravitational bodies. Instead of falling down, like you do on Earth, you fall
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world where our tax dollars were put into space exploration instead of midnight basketball, and acorn-style government programs to help set up child prostitution scemes? We'd still be taxed to death, but we'd have some really cool ships. I for one, call that a win-win.
STELLARVATORS?
It would be even more efficient to load the billions of dollars into an unmanned rocket and shoot the moon.
And we got this instead:
Yes, I’m convinced we’ll never get into space. There was a window of opportunity and we blew it. Mohahhmed is the 2nd most popular baby name in the UK. Winodw closed.
Is MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL still funded?
(silly question, maybe. As Ronald Reagain once brialliantly said: “The closest thing to eternal life is a government program”
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a reverse-engineered saucer breakthrough. It's far more likely than the current global transnationalist tyranny dedicating tax money to actual exploration and expansion into space for the sake of individual human prosperity.
Isn’t that the launch/lift system that shoots a laser up inside dome, causing the atmosphere within the dome to super-heat, expand, and provide thrust?
I saw a show on the original test-firings of that thing.
Pretty cool.
I do not think Bobn Lazaar is a whack job (at least not about the UFO’s)
He has too much info- where the cafeteria inside grrom lake, where the bathrooms are. And his background is wiped clean - they say they cannot find anyone who went to college with him- but hey- I went to college with 100 other people 2 and I dont know if any of them would remember me...
He had to go to college somewhere- he certainly sounds like he has in depth engineering schooling. If his name was all over the place and he went somewhere ELSE then that would have been a quick way for somoene else from that school to discredit him.
His description of the gravity propulsion system and the mineral (238?) sounded very likely to be the only way to travel to the stars.
geez I cannot proofread - sorry folks I am a bit dyslexic
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I’ve read of Lagrangian points before but I can’t remember for the life of me.
“It’s gnarly, you know. We surf, like gravitational tooooooobs.”
Actually no, it's Lazar's model of the anti-matter reactor he says he worked on at Groom Lake.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Lightcraft Will Use Laser Power for Space Travel
That’s what I thought, but article is misleading.
It needs atmosphere, so the whole “space” travel thing won’t work.
It’s probably good for orbital and sub-orbital loads, provided you can get the velocities.
Once it is out of the atmosphere (and moving much faster), other high-ISP/low mass propulsion can be used (like electronic plasma jet) to travel outside the atmosphere. The toughest propulsion task is from the surface to the upper atmosphere, so this fills the bill, but keeping most of the propulsion mass on the ground.
I look at this as a means to assist a lift to orbit.
As such, I don’t think any low mass propulsion could take over to finish the job if a satellite is attached. I was thinking of a second stage or positioning rocket.
Either way, the demonstrations were pretty cool.
Especially the noises that thing made going up.
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