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1 posted on 01/21/2025 11:03:26 AM PST by Red Badger
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Ping!...................


2 posted on 01/21/2025 11:03:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Send a robot to plant the American flag. It won’t mind waiting around a year or two.


4 posted on 01/21/2025 11:07:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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5 posted on 01/21/2025 11:08:37 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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EXACTLY what’s needed, and by that I mean a more continuous propulsion system. Three year trip time is way too much and shouldn’t be necessary.


6 posted on 01/21/2025 11:08:48 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Why does it feel like we’re already on Mars...


7 posted on 01/21/2025 11:08:59 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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“3000 K [2,727°C, or 4,940°F]”

What about Rankine? I only work with R.


9 posted on 01/21/2025 11:11:37 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Just think, of we hadn’t pissed away those billions on Ukraine and the *Trillions* in SWA, we could have spent that to have a working Mars spaceship by now.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 11:12:37 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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Where does it say that an astronaut has to be a human being? Nothing against Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard, but we probably could design and train an extraterrestrial space robot to plant the Stars & Stripes on Mars and then hit a bucket of golf balls toward it.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 11:18:51 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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NASA will take forever and cost the taxpayer 100s of billions and Musk can’t get his hands on this fuel, D’oh


15 posted on 01/21/2025 11:20:12 AM PST by butlerweave
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“Traditional chemical propulsion is limited too much by its own mass.”

“NTP systems work by pumping a liquid propellant, most likely hydrogen, through a reactor core,” the US Office of Nuclear Energy explains. “Uranium atoms split apart inside the core and release heat through fission. This physical process heats up the propellant and converts it to a gas, which is expanded through a nozzle to produce thrust.”

it really does not take much heat to convert Hydrogen from a liquid to a gas, not sure why you need a nuclear reaction.

and you have the same reaction mass problem that they claim to have solved.


16 posted on 01/21/2025 11:24:26 AM PST by algore
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I like the idea of setting off a nuke a few miles behind the ship and letting the shockwave propel it to Mars.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 11:25:12 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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1979, created a fusion powered rocket engine design. Fuel is an “ice cycle” that is cut, and then lasers work on that bit of fuel, to create the reaction.

The reaction force is exhausted to space.

So, the ship has both:

- traditional fuel powered rocket engines / thrusters

- fusion powered rocket engine for cruise and long distance


18 posted on 01/21/2025 11:30:01 AM PST by linMcHlp
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We need to get to the moon first! (Without a studio)


22 posted on 01/21/2025 12:29:49 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Nuclear? Hell, why not just send the crew with a bunch of takeout from Taco Bell, and...


25 posted on 01/21/2025 2:40:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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