NASA Mission to Mars may take 30 days
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
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Given that the record for power produced by a fusion reactor is 16 megawatts (not enough for the bus home from work), and that the reactor that produced it takes up a large chunk of Oxford, you'll forgive me for being somewhat dubious about the guy's extravagant claims.
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Australia is much harder to reach, because you have to take measures to avoid falling off the earth.
But if you fall off just right, you'll end up in orbit around Mars. That's the plan, anyway: -- 29 days to Australia. -- Fall off. -- 1 day to land on Mars.
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
" A pellet the size of a grain of sand would provide the same propellant as a gallon of conventional rocket fuel." Wow :-D Shame it will probably take years before they even launch it.
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This $600,000 award will provide the proof-of-concept FDR system over the next 18 months,
This is what amazed me, they must be farming the work out to China? :)
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It's not the destination, it's the journey.Enough to buy him a nice house and car, though. As soon as he's got those, he'll declare that more research is needed.
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Enough to buy him a nice house and car, though. As soon as he's got those, he'll declare that more research is needed.
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Oh course!
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Given that the record for power produced by a fusion reactor is 16 megawatts (not enough for the bus home from work), and that the reactor that produced it takes up a large chunk of Oxford, you'll forgive me for being somewhat dubious about the guy's extravagant claims.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Could, will, might, if, what a load of crap, they have nothing but speculation. I hate vapour ware, especially when they put a time frame on it! If we get a technological breakthrough we will have fusion... Still they ain't gonna get it if they aren't trying so all the luck to them!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
Yeah, but there's a big difference: People would actually like to go Mars... ;P Just kidding of course
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" A pellet the size of a grain of sand would provide the same propellant as a gallon of conventional rocket fuel." Wow :-D Shame it will probably take years before they even launch it.
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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I am working on something that will allow people to make the trip in minutes!
What me worry?
As the owner of a Mark II Type 40 Time Travel Unit (Nice shade of blue, 11 careful owners) I can get there 10 mins before I leave.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Don't beleive it until you see the engine operatonal. Remember when people were convinced practical electric cars were just around the corner. This was even back in the 60's. At least there are some now, but they do not meet the requirements of most people.
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Given that the record for power produced by a fusion reactor is 16 megawatts (not enough for the bus home from work), and that the reactor that produced it takes up a large chunk of Oxford, you'll forgive me for being somewhat dubious about the guy's extravagant claims.
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I did a search to try to find some actual reasonable explanations of how this might work (the entire craft) and couldn't find anything. The article mentions solar panels which I suspect is non-feasible given that it ignores the return trip along with the impact of acceleration on them. I also wonder about shielding, actual fuel usage and containment and failure scenarios for the entire thing. The article closes with a flippant passing note on the long term impact. However the real impact if such a vehicle existed would be in the Earth to Moon trip. Unless of course it is just so vastly expensive to build and maintain that it becomes just another Spruce Goose.
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Clever People[^] constantly amaze me. A one month trip to Mars? It used to take longer than that to get to Australia!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Put "Could" in a headline and you can make just about any claim.
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I did a search to try to find some actual reasonable explanations of how this might work (the entire craft) and couldn't find anything. The article mentions solar panels which I suspect is non-feasible given that it ignores the return trip along with the impact of acceleration on them. I also wonder about shielding, actual fuel usage and containment and failure scenarios for the entire thing. The article closes with a flippant passing note on the long term impact. However the real impact if such a vehicle existed would be in the Earth to Moon trip. Unless of course it is just so vastly expensive to build and maintain that it becomes just another Spruce Goose.
Yup. Looks to me like the guy's got himself a 600k pay-packet for drawing a few diagrams and writing a few reports. Not bad for a day's work.
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