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RE: Solar power back up batteries are best found by thinking outside the box, The lead acid box that is....

in #informationwar6 years ago

There are designs floating. There is one that is a sailboat that uses light striking a mylar sail, for thrust. The most practical is the Ion drive using collected gasses for fuel. Very efficient, with a constant low level thrust, it would fly at a significant portion of the speed of light.

Quantum entanglement, might allow us to refuel it from here too.

The biggest restriction is money, not technology.

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sir smithlabs! How fast is a significant portion of the speed of light? what about g forces and all that?

An Ion engine, burning free fuel, can accelerate at a tenth gravity or so. Boosting for a long period you could reach seven or eight tenths of C.

Some of the closer stars could be reached in less than a century this way. THAT would be an amazing trip!

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sir smithlabs! seven or eight tenths of C. what's the C?
less than a century, most people would die before they got there or be too old to do anything.

C is the term for the speed of light.

This ship would need to be a generation ship. The new batch of crew members would be the ones that arrived, and explored.

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well that sounds retarded smithlabs, who would want to spend their whole life on a ship?

Who would risk their life sitting on top of a rocket to go into orbit? I might be tempted myself...can you imagine seeing another Star?

When you approach C, time is dilated, so those traveling would only see maybe 40 years ship time.

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I don't know who would do that, a bunch of democrats? that's about how smart that is. and who would want to spend 40 years on a ship. you're outa your tree.

I am sure of that, LOL! I would have trouble leaving my family, other than that, it would be hard to resist.

You could just space the liberals....

Oddly, the thinking people you would find on a mission like this would be Conservatives. The liberals are too self centered to think of others.

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