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Hain · 03-09-2005, 08:11 PM

The best conceivable ideas for space travel would be the ion drives, light sails and the "laser top." My favorite ground to orbit device is that Space Elevator. Pop Sci had an article on them and that was fucking cool. If you really like these things, get a free subscription to SpaceDaily.com.

My personal favorite for space travel is the Bussurd Ramjet. Basically, it is a giant magnetic collector that sucks in available solar particles and generates small nuclear blasts at the core of this field for propulsion. A fun but another inefficient system is the antimatter rocket.

NASA is planning another system of X-Prizes to allow private companies to build the radical systems of space travel. Pop Sci released an issue about it. The new one is to create a reusable lander for on the moon. So guess what you need--a reusable craft to get to the moon really fast.

EDIT: Oh yes, I wouldn't mind a warp drive system either... but physics just doesn't seem to allow the warp drive. Now if you want to really get somewhere in style! use a wormhole. Nothing yet to destroy the idea of a macroscopic wormhole existing and capable of allowing matter in this universe to pass through unscathed. Of course... where that wormhole will take you and when it will take you--even if you will remain in the same universe, or even in a universe with our physics--is still :cough cough: questionable. ;-)

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Hain has a plan Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere	The best conceivable ideas for space travel would be the ion drives, light sails and the "laser top." My favorite ground to orbit device is that Space Elevator. Pop Sci had an article on them and that was fucking cool. If you really like these things, get a free subscription to SpaceDaily.com. My personal favorite for space travel is the Bussurd Ramjet. Basically, it is a giant magnetic collector that sucks in available solar particles and generates small nuclear blasts at the core of this field for propulsion. A fun but another inefficient system is the antimatter rocket. NASA is planning another system of X-Prizes to allow private companies to build the radical systems of space travel. Pop Sci released an issue about it. The new one is to create a reusable lander for on the moon. So guess what you need--a reusable craft to get to the moon really fast. EDIT: Oh yes, I wouldn't mind a warp drive system either... but physics just doesn't seem to allow the warp drive. Now if you want to really get somewhere in style! use a wormhole. Nothing yet to destroy the idea of a macroscopic wormhole existing and capable of allowing matter in this universe to pass through unscathed. Of course... where that wormhole will take you and when it will take you--even if you will remain in the same universe, or even in a universe with our physics--is still :cough cough: questionable. ;-) __________________ ////\\// IRONSKY.NET \\//\\\\ Last edited by Hain; 03-09-2005 at 08:15 PM..