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Not according to public research on theoretical designs that have been about for decades . Unless you consider them unicorn farts! I'm only a coder though so I
by ionwake 10y ago
Not according to public research on theoretical designs that have been about for decades . Unless you consider them unicorn farts! I'm only a coder though so I have no knowledge of this domain tho. I think the problem is simply it's too expensive to build space ships that probably won't work at all :( wasnt NASAs budget slashed ?
- twoodfin 10y agoIt's not money, it's the basic rocket equation: Newtonian acceleration requires fuel and the mass of fuel makes acceleration more costly. Relativity makes things even worse.
- ionwake 10y agoSee comment above yours, does your point still apply?
- dragonwriter 10y agoAbsolutely.
- ionwake 10y agooh ok , you win , thanks for your replies ^_^
- gus_massa 10y ago> Not according to public research on theoretical designs that have been about for decades. Which ones? Do you have a link? The only one I remember is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... but it's more a general idea that a detailed blueprint that only need some money to get built.
- ionwake 10y agoThats the one I read. It sounds awesome. Srsly give me 5% of the GDP of the US and I'll put a monkey on Trappist within 5 years. Monkey time. *Im not being serious, I have no idea how much it would cost or if it would even work.
- dragonwriter 10y agoProject Orion doesn't get you anywhere close to 1G constant acceleration to turnover and constant deceleration the rest of the way; a fairly high performance Orion concept for interstellar use did have 1G acceleration, but only for 10 days on each end of a 133 year trip to Alpha Centauri -- and needed 300,000 nuclear bombs with 1 megaton yield each as fuel. > Srsly give me 5% of the GDP of the US and I'll put a monkey on Trappist within 5 years. No, you won't. First, you won't design and build and launch a ship that will ever get to TRAPPIST-1 within 5 years at that (or any) price, and second TRAPPIST-1 is close to 40 light-years away, so even if you had a ship built and ready to launch today, you aren't getting anything there within 5 years.
- ionwake 10y agoThank you for your feedback, however with all due respect, with my limited understand, if the acceleration is achievable, you are wrong. The monkey would arrive, like I said, in monkey time, within 5 years. This is ofcourse assuming there would be no deceleration phase. The monkey would unfortunately however, die on impact.
- logfromblammo 10y agoGive me 0.1%, and I'll put a vanOverbruggen "Suzanne" model into a photo-realistic virtual reality imitation of one of the Trappist planets, and I'll throw in reduced head-motion lag in the viewing headgear at no additional charge.
- ionwake 10y agoCan I have half of that to design the marketing website?