Interstellar Space Travel Is Possible In Our Lifetime, Here's How (As Seen In Avatar) Pics - General

I miss threads like this in GD. Good read

Even if you gave credit, what's the point in copying everything that site had exactly and pasting it here?

are you people fucking loony its a movie get over it holy shit

Good read. Also nice work pointing out stupid misconceptions people make. [editline]12:13AM[/editline] [QUOTE=T2L_Goose;23691036]are you people fucking loony its a movie get over it holy shit[/QUOTE] Did you not read the OP o_O

[QUOTE=Chompster;23691007]Even if you gave credit, what's the point in copying everything that site had exactly and pasting it here?[/QUOTE] Because some people find it a good read.

You just need a few micrometeorites to fuck this all up.

[quote]James Cameron likes scientific accuracy in his movies.[/quote] oh my god are you actually serious [editline]10:22PM[/editline] tell me how bio-usb cables that link every single lifeform on an entire planet could have evolved

I'd rather go to Mars. I hear that could take only 6 months (the flight that is). And it'd be possible to get a long way with terraforming in 50 years, which isn't bad. [editline]10:26PM[/editline] Damn I can't remember what the tv programme I watched was that had that stuff in it. I think the guy talking about it was Robert Zubrin. I'd take his word over a movie directors. [editline]10:27PM[/editline] Mars Direct plan.

Now all we need is an easy way to get anti-matter. That shit is hard to get.

[QUOTE=Craptasket;23691220]You just need a few micrometeorites to fuck this all up.[/QUOTE] The actual Valkyrie rocket has a defence for that. Spray a fine mist of molten metal ahead of the craft, this acts like a shield for the craft breaking down and changing the trajectory of any micro meteorites, the metal particles are trapped in a strong magnetic field and pulled along the field lines back into the ship and recycled then pumped out again, and the cycle repeats. That also removes the massive heat radiators if you transfer the excess heat from the ship to the molten particles as well.

[QUOTE=The DooD;23691306]I'd rather go to Mars. I hear that could take only 6 months (the flight that is).[/QUOTE] Actually I read about a new rocket design a while back that would allow a trip to Mars within just a few weeks.

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;23691592]Actually I read about a new rocket design a while back that would allow a trip to Mars within just a few weeks.[/QUOTE] Yup the VASIMR rocket.

I found a flaw in this Matter - Antimatter, you speak as if we have a readily available supply of Antimatter.

U ned 2 hve lazers to like kill da alien suckaz. W3st syde [img]http://www.borntoredefine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/tupac_west_side-1.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=woodlander;23688398][u]There Ain't No Stealth In Space[/u] In space, there is no practical way to hide your military spacecraft from detection by the enemy.[/QUOTE] Incorrect. If done as you suggest (no windows), there practically no way to detect a ship that has a hull coat that absorbs the argh 4.48 am striking, the whatever space radars would use and an internal heatsink. Except with cameras though, but the ship could be painted black.

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[QUOTE=woodlander;23688398]and space pirates are highly unlikely.[/QUOTE] Yar be crushin' me hopes. :yarr: [editline]12:34AM[/editline] In all seriousness that was a great read. I kept telling myself "I'll read a little bit more." "Ok, just a bit more." "Just another paragraph." Before I knew it I was at the bottom. :golfclap:

While there is no friction in space, a spaceship will eventually slow down due to the acting of gravitational forces on the spacecraft itself.

[QUOTE=PopLot;23700502]While there is no friction in space, a spaceship will eventually slow down due to the acting of gravitational forces on the spacecraft itself.[/QUOTE] :bravo: Ah man this is great.

[QUOTE=PopLot;23700502]While there is no friction in space, a spaceship will eventually slow down due to the acting of gravitational forces on the spacecraft itself.[/QUOTE] Fucking gravity, how does it work?

Is that actually true? [editline]12:47PM[/editline] Oh wait nevermind I was thinking the spacecrafts own gravity slows its self down.

Noo, I don't have time to read, I'll be back in a few hours :v:

[QUOTE=superdinoman;23695603]I found a flaw in this Matter - Antimatter, you speak as if we have a readily available supply of Antimatter.[/QUOTE] Yeah that's why we need to have a space based economy. We can find and harvest anti matter, NASA discovered a massive anti matter cloud a little while back. Or we could just convert the moons surface into mass of giant particle accelerators and harvest the anti matter produced by that Asimov Array.

Did you just fucking Explain space travel? High five. You're smarter then 80% of facepunch.:D

A lot of folk here are pretty smart dude. And I'm pretty sure most of that OP was copypasta.

[QUOTE=bravehat;23705011] And I'm pretty sure most of that OP was copypasta.[/QUOTE] Regardless of how much of it was copypasta, it was a damn good read.

A very interesting read, but there are a few flaws in this (Mainly economical problems (I realize he said costs would be astronomical, but I still want to point them out)) As someone else said, anti-matter is far from available in the quantities needed for this project. Right now it costs millions to produce even a few micrograms, and producing it requires more energy than you can gain from it. However, if we found a way to gather the anti-matter that's already scattered across the universe, it might be doable. Getting thousands of laser stations into an orbit around Mercury will cost trillions. Unless we find more effective ways of sending them into space, or establish a moonbase where these could be launched from, I highly doubt anyone can do it. NASA's budget is a joke and private space corporations just don't have that much money. We also have no effective ways of putting humans into suspended animation, and it doesn't look like we'll be having it for at least another 20-30 years judging from the (lack of) advances we've made in that area for the last few decades. I wonder what you mean by "There ain't no stealth in Space". Why shouldn't it be possible to jam sensors/have some kind of stealth plating in space, just like we have on Earth? And I'd also like to comment on the window thing, just out of pure nerdness. The windows in Star Trek weren't actually made out of glass, but transparent aluminum :p Last, but not the least, I couldn't help but noticing how you said "but space travel will probably never be how people imagine it". You can't really say that, as you draw that conclusion based on the technology we have today. Who says that we won't discover a whole new branch of physics in a few decades/hundred years that will open up the possibility of going faster-than-light. What about wormholes, or warp bubbles? Sure, they are just theoretical right now, but we haven't even begun to come close to fully understanding the physics of the universe, we have no idea of what potential the future technological evolution has in store for us. Nobody could ever imagine having huge metal objects flying through the sky before we discovered aerodynamics. Otherwise it was a good read, high-powered lasers propelling solar-sails is a brilliant idea, but it's not doable for at least another 30-50 years due to a lack of technology/funding. Oh and, sorry for any grammatical errors, haven't slept for over 30 hours, typing gets harder.

[QUOTE=bravehat;23704771]Yeah that's why we need to have a space based economy. We can find and harvest anti matter, NASA discovered a massive anti matter cloud a little while back. Or we could just convert the moons surface into mass of giant particle accelerators and harvest the anti matter produced by that Asimov Array.[/QUOTE] The moon idea would be pretty nifty.

[QUOTE=mapreader;23689167]Those ships better have extremely precise alignment navigation. If you miss the decceleration laser batteries on either end, you're fucked. That could be a problem...[/QUOTE] In the film the RDA made all crew members (Bar the pilots and techs) sign a contract stating that they could not be held responsible for their death. Good system due to the fact that the cargo would remain intact.

I can't really grasp a meaning from that trivial amount of text. Please elaborate some more rather than leaving us with such ambiguous sentences that aren't built on at all.