Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Tau Zero Takes Aim at Interstellar Propulsion
Discovery News ^ | 01/10/11 | Paul Gilster

Posted on 01/10/2011 4:45:36 PM PST by KevinDavis

Marc Millis steeples his fingers, leaning back in his chair to ponder a question from one of the practitioner scientists of the Tau Zero Foundation.

He's in Austin, Texas, for a session devoted to roughing-out ideas and organization plans for the young organization with an ambitious goal: Build a practical groundwork for interstellar flight within sound, peer-reviewed physics; establish the basics that will one day lead -- whether in decades or centuries -- to technologies that can take us to the stars.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: space

1 posted on 01/10/2011 4:45:39 PM PST by KevinDavis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kevmo; LuvFreeRepublic; LittleBillyInfidel; LucyT; HighWheeler; ChuckHam; Elderberry; ColdOne; ...



2 posted on 01/10/2011 4:46:51 PM PST by KevinDavis (If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis
Stuff happens when we try to go to the stars...


3 posted on 01/10/2011 5:01:40 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

DONT SAY TAKE AIM!!!

the libs consider it a threat.


4 posted on 01/10/2011 5:15:42 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
....damn you all to hell....
5 posted on 01/10/2011 5:17:32 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

Thanks KevinDavis.
6 posted on 01/10/2011 5:43:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

Warp Drive, When?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warp.html


7 posted on 01/10/2011 5:57:21 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

Well, you have to start somewhere. A journey of a trillion miles starts with the first step :)


8 posted on 01/10/2011 6:00:49 PM PST by OCC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

If they were really serious about attaining their stated goal, they would recruit engineers and business types, not daydreaming scientists and SciFi fanboys.


9 posted on 01/10/2011 7:04:04 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

10 posted on 01/10/2011 7:19:26 PM PST by Redcitizen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KevinDavis

Okay, so we´ve got four spacecraft out there now. How many more shall we send?


11 posted on 01/10/2011 10:48:08 PM PST by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson