Comments on: The Big Idea Behind Space Industry

By: tonyon

tonyon — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:09:50 +0000

3D Bioprinting…will arrive in time for us the Fantastic Voyage towards the Immortal Future?…

By: mamuka555

mamuka555 — Fri, 06 May 2016 16:29:30 +0000

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By: tonyon

tonyon — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:10:56 +0000

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By: tonyon

tonyon — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:52:28 +0000

…space-elevator (orbital station centrifugal 1g)▓▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬←▬▬▬▒▬▬▬Faraway high beyond Earth surface at 183,754 kms…fast orbital speed 49,913 kms/hour…there it is the counterwheight great Terminal Orbital Station-1g centrifugal force… Awaits passengers in subterranean Earth Station a hyper-speed vertical electric train of Magnetic Levitation… “Spatial train that coming from Orbital Station-1g and Orbital Station-0g entering at the moment, will depart again after 1 hour”…medium-speed = 5,000 kms/hour: Earth/Orbital Station 0g…distance = 35,795 kms…total travel time = 7 hours… Orbital Station-0g/Orbital Station-1g…distance = 147,959 kms…total travel time = 29.6 hours… Well seized from retractable cogwheels, with slow-speed at the beginning travel of strong gravitation from Earth (or strong centrifugal force from Orbital Station-1g), with conventional zipper track… THE TRAIN DEPARTS►… already enough far, with little gravitational Earth attraction: Cogwheels off…MAGLEV on… Here we go…goooooo!…hyper-speed→…passengers stayed in comfortable private compartments…←already braking enough near from each Station…slow-speed, changes propulsion system again: Maglev off…COGWHEELS on… 7 hours: Train is vertical at zero-speed, the passengers disembark at destination: Geo 0g-Station… Tour continuing again… THE TRAIN DEPARTS►… already entering at dominant G centrifugal field…within of train, living compartments rotates 180º…already enough near from Terminal…slowly by zipper track train´s cogwheels are braking strongly “downhill”… 29.6 hours: Train is vertical on Terminal at zero-speed, near from Vital Support Gardens, in spectacular and covered by transparent graphene´s domes with Earth views always in the ceiling, the passengers disembark at destination: counterwheight centrifuge 1g-Station… “Be careful and not fall down outside from Station, because then…goodbye”… “Remenber that still from here, only can return to Earth on Train, due to high orbital Station´s speed which is higher than escape Earth´s speed”…

By: tonyon

tonyon — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:36:52 +0000

…interstellar travel constant acceleration (Sun-Deneb: 1000g)… Earth…the 2 ships that will go formation flying for mutual assistance if there are problems…indestructible structures made of Hexapentas materials, awaiting in airport the arrival of passengers… Day 1: zero-speed… THE SHIPS TAKEOFF►… navigation computer places on screen the ship in the center of sphere…spherical\tridimensional\spatial Heading: Deneb… Antimatter rocket engines…ON… Here we go…goooooo!…1g…10g…100g…constant acceleration cruise: 1000g (9.8 kms/sec²)… Inside of living areas (the same as going submerged in water: constant acceleration downwards…less…constant thrust, constant acceleration, from water upwards)…the gravitational transformers, perfectly synchronized with acceleration, running: 1000g constant acceleration toward the floor ↓↓(motors)↓↓…less…999g constant acceleration toward the ceiling ↑↑(gravitational transformers)↑ = 1g constant acceleration toward the floor↓… 8.5 hours: light-speed = 1c…the fusion reactor as an artificial sun illuminating the immense Vital Support Gardens to lowering, from their comfortable appartments, cheerful passage to the pool…the electromagnetic shield anti-radiation…antigravity fieds generator run forwards, working: light objects away from the path of the ship, and trajectory ship away from the heavy objects…superluminal-speed > 1c… 42.5 hours: reaches hyperluminal-speed = 5c… Day 508: Half Journey…1000 light years…high hyperluminal-speed = 1435.39c… OFF engines…a few minutes of weightlessness during maneuver…the ship rotates 180º around its axis…motors ON again and… ◄starts to brake… Day 1017 (2.79 years): End Path party…2000 light years…zero-speed… The forever young passage of the 1st Immortal Generation (3D Bioprinting…Telomerase…modified Biological Timers…) disembarks at destination: an extra-stellar planet came errant to orbit of Deneb giant.

By: Nico Marzian

Nico Marzian — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:41:33 +0000

I see the simple reason of extraterrestrial life-forms in movies just being two or three times smarter than us in keeping the dramaturgy round and acceptable.
Otherwise the script would be implausible for the viewers on the one hand, on the other how would you make it comprehensible that an Alien is so much more intelligent? We are not bright enough to understand way higher intelligence, are we?

My assumption is that the strong will to survive and evolve, programmed into life as we know it, will make us going the next steps sooner or later. The risk about it is that we might be too late with going them.
But man is also a life-form that thinks on an economical level, which has been the reason for so many steps forward already. Luckily this kind of motivation seems to direct our views strongly towards space right now.

By: Bringing an Asteroid to Earth: What Kind? - Philip Metzger

Bringing an Asteroid to Earth: What Kind? - Philip Metzger — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:25:58 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:26:38 +0000

Thanks for the link, Michelle. I’ll check it out. I spoke at the 100 Year Starship conference on how we should include use of our own solar system in the plans for building starships. (“On the way to other stars, don’t skip over the solar system.”) We can make starships much more affordable, and therefore build lots more of them and send missions to many more stars if we start mining in our own solar system first and build the starship hardware in space rather than launching everything. We need space mining and industry after we get to another star if we want to survive there, so we have to develop the technologies and skills to do it, anyway. So let’s focus on that and make use of it in the process of building the starships. After discussions at the 100 Year Starship conference I realized that this needed to be quantitatively modeled to really convince people, so I got to work on that with some colleagues and our paper finally came out in print this past month, here: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AS.1943-5525.0000236 . In that paper I mentioned (in the final two sentences and in the conclusion) that this kind of self-sustaining industry would make it possible for us to build starships and travel to other stars. I used to be pessimistic about the chances of actually traveling beyond our solar system because of the travel time and the energy and cost required to do such a mission, but when you consider how dynamic our civilization would be after we leverage a billion times greater energy and resources, then sending out lots of starships, including even multi-generation world ships or beamed propulsion ships (with giant energy beaming stations located on the Moon) or ships launched at extremely high velocity with a giant chain of magnetic loops — well, none of that is science fiction any more. It really is do-able. So I’m no longer pessimistic about traveling to other stars. We definitely can do it, and it won’t be that far off in the future.

By: Michelle Snyder

Michelle Snyder — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:36:49 +0000

It is about time any space exploration was continued; we had the capability in the 50’s to undertake long passage. Privatizing means business ventures like mining. Here is a website of material by the designer of the Enzmann starship, Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann: http://enzmannstarship.blogspot.com/