NASA announces "100-year Starship." To boldly go to new worlds.
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It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a NASA official says that "within a few years" scientists will unveil a prototype for a spaceship capable of taking earthlings to other worlds.
Speaking at a Long Now Foundation conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Simon Worden, center director at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said a project is under way called the "Hundred Year Starship."
As reported by news.com.au, the project is, so far, a joint venture between NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and looks to utilize new ship propulsion modes.
The Starship Enterprise
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A NASA official has announced a proposed spaceship that could take earthlings to other worlds within a few years. Pictured, "Star Trek's" Starship Enterprise.
"Anybody that watches the ["Star Trek"] Enterprise, you know you don't see huge plumes of fire," Worden, a retired Air Force brigadier general, said at the conference.
"Within a few years, we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds."
Worden added that NASA is "now really aimed at settling other worlds. Twenty years ago, you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired."
So far, the starship project has received $1 million from DARPA and $100,000 from NASA. That's certainly not enough to make this enterprise (if you will) a reality, and Worden said he's hoping to entice some billionaires to help fund it.
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It's not exactly warp drive. Worden explained that NASA was looking into the idea of using microwave power from a ground base to heat hydrogen propellants installed on an orbiting spaceship.
"You don't have to carry all the fuel. You use that energy from a laser or microwave power to heat a propellant. ... I think that's one way of getting off the world."
But before we spend billions and billions of hard-earned dollars, leaping out where no one has gone before, Worden suggests we first use long-distance robots to explore the planet Mars from its two moons.
"I think we'll be on the moons of Mars by 2030 or so," Worden said.
Most probably to be created in 100 years :/
Holy fuck I love NASA and DARPA!
[QUOTE=Nat562;25688443]Most probably to be created in 100 years :/[/QUOTE]
I'd say about 40-50 years.
"100-year Starship" as in first prototype ready in 100 years.
Urgh I wish we had more information on it, the article is really vague
Still this is fucking awesome
if i die before i go to a new world, imma be pissed.
Damn, this sounds fucking awesome. It just sucks that most of this shit takes forever. Going to another world is not easy and I'll be dead before we set our feet on any other planet. Maybe Mars.
Assign more engineers on this project, that way it'll get done faster.
i don't know hwo to feel about this
If a guy and his kid living in New York can build a balloon that goes all the way to space, it should not take so bloody long to make a spaceship like that.
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I always wonder if there are other human beings in this world we live in
Sounds awesome. Yet vague.
Also, nice job reading the article everyone. It says "I think we'll be on the moons of Mars by 2030 or so,".
We need more people coming out in support of this, so far they've only gotten 1,100,000 dollars. In the world of scientific advancement, that's quite literally a drop in a bucket. If we had more companies pouring money into projects like these we'd probably be to mars by 2015 and beyond our system by 2050.
[QUOTE=KnightLight;25689239]If a guy and his kid living in New York can build a balloon that goes all the way to space, it should not take so bloody long to make a spaceship like that.
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Homemade weather ballons =/= some high-tech, first of its kind, advanced spaceship.
Mars moons by 2030?
Sounds good to me, at least i'll be alive to see it... At least i think i will.
[QUOTE=BobbyHill;25689257]I always wonder if there are other human beings in this world we live in[/QUOTE]
Define "world".
The universe undoubtedly have other forms of living creatures outside of our solar system.
Heck, there might even be creatures in our current solar system too, but is yet to be discovered.
Dammit, I'll still never be the first human Spectre...
Also, I pray to fuck that they don't pick a shitty name for the ship.
Why do I have a terrible feeling that this project will be shelved after the people see the price tag? :smith:
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[QUOTE=Hiccuper;25689715]Dammit, I'll still never be the first human Spectre...
Also, I pray to fuck that they don't pick a shitty name for the ship.[/QUOTE]
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I think I have my faith in humanity back.
Couldn't help but think of Queen's '39.
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Let's hope this ship is insanely successful.
[QUOTE=I Has a Crayon;25688754]if i die before i go to a new world, imma be pissed.[/QUOTE]
You'll be dead
[QUOTE=KnightLight;25689239]If a guy and his kid living in New York can build a balloon that goes all the way to space, it should not take so bloody long to make a spaceship like that.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZMscMp8UM[/media][/QUOTE]i can make a slingshot, that must mean i can make a nuke!
[QUOTE=KnightLight;25689239]If a guy and his kid living in New York can build a balloon that goes all the way to space, it should not take so bloody long to make a spaceship like that.
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that balloon doesn't have a self sufficient engine that can carry humans out of the earths atmosphere and to new planets to colonize it.
For this to turn out to be something more than a space station that looks like a satellite NASA and DARPA are going to need at least $300 billion in funding.
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The ISS costed 150 billion USD to create.
Why would I want to go to a different planet? They don't have love there =/
