Posted on 12/27/2017 3:54:49 PM PST by Simon Green
That’s where Will Robinson was heading to.
Breakthrough Starshot relies on a huge investment in ground based lasers. I do like the idea of extremely small robotic probes. However I am skeptical of their means of propulsion. By the time they could build something like this scientists would have come up with a better solution.
Total Suck.
I’ll be dead.
Please put Pelosie, Shummer, Hillary and the rest on it. Please.
NASA lies to the public for a living so I wonder what they really want to do with their time and money?
Danger, Will Robinson!
I recall the sf novel "Rocheworld" by Robert L. Forward in which the first manned starship is propelled to a quarter the speed of light using solar-powered lasers covering the surface of Mercury.
I’ll be dead by then. For sure I’ll be dead by the time the probe arrives!
The distances in the universe are mind-boggling. It is idiocy to think any type of propulsion-type spacecraft would serve any purpose. Long before anything like it would reach its destination technology would surpass it. Man, in a physical form, will never see these distance places.
Judy Robinson...the others can stay lost.
I’ll be dead.
Keith Richards will get to see it.
Maybe not, we might yet get a full repeal of Obamacare !!!
Unless Alpha Centauri is suffering from global warming as a result of light-skinned multi-ped worshippers of a universal creator who is ignoring their destruction of the Centauri climate that harms the child-bearing, youth, and life-giving fauna, who will teach our future engineers to be qualified to get there?
-PJ
But Sheila Jackson Lee will bump Keith out of a first class seat.
The first season was (relatively) serious. It only devolved into pure camp in the 2nd & 3rd seasons.
(Trivia: the guy losing his dignity in the carrot suit is actor Stanley Adams, who also portrayed conman Cyrano Jones on the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles")
True that.
Hope he laughs at me.
True that.
Hope he laughs at me.
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