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Culmen
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Posted - 2010.05.19 21:35:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 19/05/2010 21:36:16
Originally by: SupaKudoRio
Using space elevators would be one way, but it would be a gigantic investment. I think it's more likely something similar to aircraft catapults will be used, in conjunction with jet or rocket propulsion (most likely rocket, as jets stop functioning in space).
Are you perhaps thinking of the Lofstrom Loop?
It's feasible with current technology and doesn't require us to be able to mass produce carbon nano-tubes, unlike a space elevator.
All we need is someone to cough up the billions of dollars to actually get it built.
Honestly, I think alot of the problems with these launch systems is that they need to be built on/near the equator. And none of the launch capable nations want to repeat the political stuff that went on with the Panama Canal. and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Culmen
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Posted - 2010.05.20 17:04:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 20/05/2010 17:09:39 Edited by: Culmen on 20/05/2010 17:04:50
Originally by: Lt Forge I'll leave this here. <big image>
This thing has nothing to do with the thread.
But I still love that image, it demonstrates that Atheist can be ignorant as well. I mean, wow, Christianity could nerf development in China, India,The Middle East, Africa and The Pre-Colombian Americas from all the way in Europe! Truely God Must Favor Only Europeans! and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Culmen
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Posted - 2010.05.21 05:16:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 21/05/2010 05:16:33
Originally by: digitalwanderer
That's the funny part though....If even a small fraction of what was spent in useless military projects,was spent in actual scientific research towards those technologies,we'd be much further ahead in those fields than we are now...Keep in mind the amount of money spent on the B2 steath bomber as an example(1.5 billion $ each X 50 planes),or the star wars program in the 80's when ronald reagan was president....List goes on and on.
You know, we wouldn't have a space program if CPL Adolf and the National Socialist hadn't wanted to blow up stuff in London from the comfort of their own homes. See the V2 rocket program. For that matter we wouldn't have the Apollo program if it wasn't for the space-peen waving contest between the US and the USSR.
It's especially funny, since the Star Wars program would have provided the impetus to develope technology to put lots of stuff into orbit. While the Partial Test Ban Treaty scuttled Project Orion. With that thing, we could have put someone on Mars by now. and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Culmen
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Posted - 2010.05.21 14:04:00 -
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Originally by: Caldari Citizen20090217
That and the fact that the fallout means that each launch means several people get cancer, along with the EMP given off each time the craft takes off means you have to launch from isolated areas. And the tech to make micronukes (for the propulsion) is exactly what our current rash of terrorists/freedom fighters are looking for.
If they can make pure fusion work for the propulsion tho this project really ought to be started up again. It is (AFAIK) the only viable means to shift useful payloads into space.
I agree that using nuclear propulsion for orbital insertion would be pretty darn stupid. But as a means of interplanetary travel, nothing currently feasible can match it's high thrust and high specific impulse. All you need to do is use conventional chemical rockets to get it a safe distance from earth, then let loose the nukes.
However, the Partial Test Ban Treaty also barred nuclear explosions in outer space.
Also "micronukes" were never an issue with terrorism and security. Constructing a nuclear bomb has always been easy, it's getting the fissile material that's hard. Plus the US has built over 3000 Nuclear Air-to-Air Missiles So it's not like humanity wasn't doing the whole "micronuke" thing in the first place.
Finally, a orion-style space craft could, with little to no modification, be use Antimatter Catalysed Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. Which is about as close to a pure fusion drive as we can get our heads around for the time being. and further more why do i even need a sig? |
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