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How to get yourself a vacation on another WORLD !!!
On Aug 3, 9:37*pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Aug 2, 8:08 am, Sylvia Else wrote: I think I'll wait until fusion rockets have been developed. Sylvia.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - (Also responding to BradGuth, on swinging cats, etc. - Schrodinger didn't like cats, either, did he?) :-) Sylvia Else wrote: " I think I'll wait until fusion rockets have been developed." That's one my most key points; the idea is to develop a FAST system. It might be fission, fusion, antimatter, or whatever. The idea to me is to have CONGRESS MANDATE acceleration of 1G and cruising speed of 1 million mph. Once you've reached the point where propellant mass is not significant compared with payload, you might as well run a constant acceleration all the way (including during turnover), even if that's only, say, 0.1g. This also reduces the power requirements, resulting in a lighter power generator. Sylvia.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - A gradual acceleration that gets us there and back in a time frame similar to what I'm talking would be fine for any particular mission. The reason I use 1 G and 1 MMPH is that the craft is intended for use to go to at least the entire TRADITIONAL solar system, including Neptune and Pluto. But it would also be nice to be able to go to Sedna, etc. By having a craft that alway performs (speed and time of travel - wise) at least as well as one having a typical or cruising speed of 1 million mph, the whole traditional solar system, at least, is within reasonable reach. Sylvia, looking at your profile, I see I don't need to explain basic physics to you, afer all! :-) Sorry, I should have looked first before that last post. I also checked and see the Jupiter can be up to 600+ million miles from earth, whereas I said half a billion miles , but that's close enough for government work. Ha! Ha! Earth -- Neptune is in the area of 2 - 3 billion miles (of course, these distances vary as the planets orbit the sun). That's 18 weeks one way. Sedna is about 8 billion miles away: 48 weeks! See why I want a craft that waste's no time getting to 1 MMPH? But any acceleration that keeps the SAME time frames, should be acceptable. The whole point is keeping trip times down to these that I'm talking about. |
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