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I would love it if there were a straightforward way to donate money directly to NASA. I'd happily fund an indiegogo project for warp systems.
by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I would love it if there were a straightforward way to donate money directly to NASA. I'd happily fund an indiegogo project for warp systems.
- DennisP 13y agoThis is just indirectly related to space travel, but there will probably be an indiegogo project for aneutronic fusion in the near future: http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_lyftenbloggie&view=entry&year=2013&month=08&day=07&id=100%3Aplanning-for-crowdfunding-campaign-underway&Itemid=90 http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_l...
- dnautics 13y agowow, that's simply amazing. One thing I can't find though, is: Who will own the patents?
- damian2000 13y agoIs this anything like cold fusion?
- DennisP 13y agoQuite the opposite, it's extremely hot. They got a paper published in Physics of Plasmas saying they'd reached temperatures of 1.8 billion degrees C. That's hot enough to fuse boron-11 with hydrogen. You end up with three helium nuclei and some x-rays. There are several attempts underway, though the one I linked above is the cheapest and apparently the furthest along. I wrote up some descriptions with references here: http://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/10/planId/1304006 http://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestI...
- mathattack 13y agoSounds like they need funding for 100 years. That's a lot of money! It's actually basic science like this that I think is a defensible form of public research spending.