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Nuclear Experiments to travel through Space
kitamesume:
Teleportation > light speed travel
even if teleportation has delays its still the better pick, though watch out for wrong input of coordinates.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Mirgond on June 01, 2011, 09:56:34 AM ---Sorry to disappoint you, but the last time i checked the speed of light was 300000km/s...
And you die at much much lower speeds if you hit an asteroid than 300km/s...
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... Right. *facepalm* Was tired then, still tired now. Remind me not to stay up late on BBT.
The second one is pretty obvious, though, of course. The point was that if anything happens in a timeframe spanning the majority of the flight, you're screwed.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Mirgond on June 01, 2011, 09:56:34 AM ---
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on June 01, 2011, 07:54:43 AM ---Edit: Just gave it a read. The 1G acceleration idea is rather interesting, but rather dangerous.
For one, at ~10m/s2 acceleration, you would reach the speed of light (300 km/s) in ~30 000 seconds, or 8.3 hours, assuming you can sustain that acceleration. That means you can't accelerate at 1G and then turn around just once at halfway - you'd have to do this repeatedly.
And for two, navigation in space is more difficult than the guy makes it seem. There's very little friction and air resistance in space - people can't seem to grasp that fact. At those speeds, if you're heading straight at an asteroid, you're sure to die. You can't suddenly dodge it, even if you were going at a regular walking pace, unless you have some incredibly specialized thrusters pointing in all directions.
And finally, for three, it's very rare that you'd be able to travel in a straight line all the way to the destination. Take that into account along with the first point, and you end up with some very complex calculations to determine the optimum path.
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Sorry to disappoint you, but the last time i checked the speed of light was 300000km/s...
And you die at much much lower speeds if you hit an asteroid than 300km/s...
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Unless if we find a way to avoid such things. Has any of you watched Macross Frontier? I mean I doubt we'd be able to have such huge spaceships like them. But I'm certain we can develop a smaller space ship than what you see in Macross Frontier and it would allow us to travel without worry about other things.
I remember reading this from some expert talking about ... closing the distance of space between your location and the target location your trying to travel to - kinda like teleportation, but not a real teleportation. It's like you pull the space
This is pretty cool - Traveling through Space video.
newy:
Eh, first let there be a successor to the Space Shuttle... Let the US or any other country with a space program get the millions to create a successor... even then you can't talk about interstellar ships...
kitamesume:
just wait till they finish their new launch pad, they were thinking of using the railgun as an accelerator to at least remove that chunky rocket off the shuttle.
NASA proposes the ScramJet Rail Gun to launch Spacecrafts
remember the launch pads used on the gundams? those are some good examples of what they're gonna be doing.
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