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Title: NASA'S SUPER FAST SOLAR SHIP MAY CHANGE SPACE EXPLORATION FOREVER
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f74w2WW17CY
Published: Feb 9, 2016
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2016-02-09 13:38:40 by Horse
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Views: 536
Comments: 11
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Warp speed? I wonder why space conditions wouldn't rip that said to shreds in a matter of minutes.
There was no mention of "warp speed" in the video, and the stated speed of 64,000 mph is still slow as molasses in comparison to light speed, which is 186,000 miles per SECOND. In miles per hour, that'd be 669.6 MILLION miles per hour. As far as being ripped to shreds, there is empty vacuum in space, so there's nothing to rip it. Meteors? Asteroids?
A parachute in a Vacuum.... yea riiiiiight.
How does this dreamy science fiction shit benefit niggers, queers, and jews? And will there be a unisex bathroom on this contraption??? Just askin'.....
#2. To: Ada (#1)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#3. To: FormerLurker (#2)
As far as being ripped to shreds, there is empty vacuum in space, so there's nothing to rip it.
#4. To: Horse (#0)
#5. To: Horse (#0)
(Edited)
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: Ada (#3)
Meteors are small space rocks which burn up in the earth's atmosphere. Asteroids are very large space rocks, some as big as small moons, which orbit the sun. The smaller space rocks luckily are extremely spread out and to my knowledge have never hit a manned or unmanned space vehicle. Otherwise satellites orbiting the earth would be frequently destroyed by such and manned space flight, including the ISS, would be impossible. Asteroids are fairly well known and are avoided. Meteors? Asteroids?
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#7. To: Neo TryingtoWarnYou (#4)
Not a vacuum when subatomic particles and radiation from the sun are considered. A parachute in a Vacuum.... yea riiiiiight.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#8. To: FormerLurker (#6)
The low orbiting satellites are in fact impacted by dust and tiny specs of debris. Specs of paint from older space craft have been found in microcraters of the shuttle, I believe, and 2 satellites did collide a few years ago, disintegrating both and resulted in blasting a fair amount of junk of various sizes into orbit, increasing the hazard of other satellites being harmed. Deep space has less dust, of course, but it is still out there. Comets, for one, spray a fair amount of dust into space as they near the sun. Long term space travel will inevitably potmark spacecraft with it. A sail might be able to tolerate a lot of microcraters before its performance would be affected.
#9. To: FormerLurker (#2) (Edited)
According to the video, the speed improvement isn't that impressive. He said it would reduce the time to reach the edge of the solar system from 35 to 20 years, so it's not even a doubling of conventional speed. Sure any tech that nearly doubles the speed of a plane, car or boat would be significant, but it terms of space travel, improvements in orders of magnitude are needed to really be a revolution. Also, seems to me one limitation with this tech is that the direction of thrust is limited to the direction directly opposite the sun. A sail boat can be propelled in a direction perpendicular to the wind, or even partially into the wind, but that's due to the friction of the boat against the water, combined with the wind. Space of course has no substance to create that friction, so thrust can only go in the same direction as the photons. So it would still require help from gravity slingshots for steering. There was no mention of "warp speed" in the video, and the stated speed of 64,000 mph is still slow as molasses in comparison to light speed, which is 186,000 miles per SECOND.
#10. To: Pinguinite (#8)
I don't know why they haven't designed and implemented an electrostatic type of repeller which would act as a force field deflecting micrometeors such as the tiny specs of dust you mention. It almost would seem to be a necessity on long manned voyages, such as to the planets.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#11. To: Pinguinite (#9)
I read a book once that was written by a nuclear physicist who worked at Los Alamos. He claimed that he had encountered a landed saucer while walking home from work one evening. He said it communicated with him via telepathy, and that one of things he asked it was how it propelled itself. The answer was that it projected a magnetic field in the direction it wanted to travel, and that it was sort of like putting a carrot in front of a race horse, it would accelerate to get there but never reach it.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
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