Brahma
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That's another fuckin planet. It blows my mind every time they pull some shit like this off. Makes me wish I was born 50 years from now. You know colonization of that planet is the next step.
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That's another fuckin planet. It blows my mind every time they pull some shit like this off. Makes me wish I was born 50 years from now. You know colonization of that planet is the next step.
Zindan
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Chukzombi
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i'll start getting excited when we land a ship on mars and then it launches itself back out to come home. thats when it starts.
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Gavinmad
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Without major field-changing breakthroughs in rocketry itself you're talking about a trip that would probably take decades if it's even possible.
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Chukzombi
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not necessarily, i mean if its a self contained ship with enough fuel for a round trip to mars, then yeah, not gonna happen for a while. but sending fuel ahead for one of our ships to dock with and refuel for the return mission is something we could do within ten years.
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Gavinmad
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So you want to send TWO ships to Mars, one of them a flying bomb, and you want the first ship to be capable of launching from the surface into a perfectly matched orbit with the flying bomb, dock, refuel, detach, and burn back for earth orbit and do the vast majority of this precise series of actions entirely by itself due to the communications lag between here and Mars.
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You forgot the part about Matt Damon acting like Iron Man by puncturing a hole in his suit
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Big Phoenix
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Wait until you read about the Apollo program!
We certainly have the capability to do a sample return mission. We've had it for a long time now. Its simply a matter of the cost.
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Chukzombi
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i dunno about no bombs. everything we send into space is full of fuel when it starts off. sending fuel cells into space to orbit around Mars shouldnt be too difficult if we can do the same with satellites already. all it would take is have one of our ships rendezvous with the fuel satellite and then start up an automatic refuelling program. it wouldnt take as much fuel to leave mars than it would to leave earth. lower grav and such. we have the tech right now to send a drone to Mars and have it come back if planned right over the next several years.
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Gavinmad
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Exactly how are you going to propel anything without propellant?
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khorum
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Oh you want Warp Drives?!?! We got Warp Drives.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936.pdf
The NASA lab that's training that machine-learning AI to optimize Alcubierre's metric tensor actually has a facebook page lol.
https://www.facebook.com/eagleworksnasa
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936.pdf
The NASA lab that's training that machine-learning AI to optimize Alcubierre's metric tensor actually has a facebook page lol.
https://www.facebook.com/eagleworksnasa
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pharmakos
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Chukzombi
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i think gavin is thinking we are talking about some large space craft here, when all i'm talking about is something not bigger than a large model rocket that kids make in school. i just need a proof of concept. get some tiny little ship over there and bring it back. do that and then we can start thinking about making things bigger and more efficient.
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