• Russians make breakthrough in interplanetary space travel, prototypes by 2014
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[QUOTE=JesterUK;35419604]Can't wait until we discover the Prothean ruins on Mars[/QUOTE] Then after that, you exit the game and sigh.
Ion thrusters are [url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html]nothing new[/url]. Just look at this video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIg6pWwezEU[/media] It sounds more like they made a good but small nuclear reactor that could be used to POWER the thrusters. Progress in this is always welcome.
[QUOTE=mac338;35419342]Deemed "impractical" every time. It's not in a politicians brain, long as it is not in the public's heart to think forward, and beyond.[/QUOTE] Ive read somewhere that with the recent energy crisis, "mining" Helium 3 on the moon might become profitable. The engineers and general public might be anthousiastic, but as long as there is no money to fund it nothing will happen. Maybe something like [URL="http://www.kickstarter.com/"]http://www.kickstarter.com[/URL] can make a difference.
[QUOTE=MIPS;35419396]Hippies will be angry because it uses evil nuclear power.[/QUOTE] I don't think Putin cares shit-balls about what hippies think. If this turns out to be a true thing and they launch an interplanetary spacecraft, maybe it'll slap the USA on its ass and make it get the fuck up and out. I want to believe.
Shame we can't go faster than the speed of light... Yet!
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;35419175]Nuclear? I was expecting Vodka-powered.[/QUOTE] Obviously the pilots will be vodka powered.
Space race two? How about Russian/American collaboration?
Then we'll be the first to have fusion and make a fusion-propelled ship. [url]https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nic/[/url]
This type of propulsion isn't new. NASA already has an ion propulsion system on the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)]Dawn[/url] spacecraft which is currently orbiting Vesta. This is a pretty bad article. At the bottom it has a picture of the bottom of the Saturn V with the F1 engines but says it's RD-0410's, a russian nuclear engine.
Nuclear ion engines, the stuff my dreams run on. Neil degrasse tyson's going to have fun yelling at us because china and russia have plans for travel while ae dont [editline]3rd April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Pelf;35420628]This type of propulsion isn't new. NASA already has an ion propulsion system on the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)]Dawn[/url] spacecraft which is currently orbiting Vesta. This is a pretty bad article. At the bottom it has a picture of the bottom of the Saturn V with the F1 engines but says it's RD-0410's, a russian nuclear engine.[/QUOTE] Well we were talking about russias space programe, their probes like the phobos grunt used ineeficent chemical propulsion. Also it crashed so...
[QUOTE=JustGman;35419938]Obviously the pilots will be vodka powered.[/QUOTE] A lean diet of space vodka and space potatoes.
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;35419190]We need a new Space Race. All the diddling around since America landed on the moon has achieved relatively little.[/QUOTE] Quite the opposite actually. Putting people on the moon achieved relatively little science-wise. The rock sample returns, laser retroreflector installations and other tasks could've been relatively easily accomplished with a robotic mission. Apollo was for the most part a dick-waving mission. The fact that we haven't put people further than low earth orbit since doesn't mean astronomical and cosmological science haven't seriously leaped forward. Granted, extended manned stay in lunar bases and people on interplanetary missions to mars and further might actually be beneficial for science due to limitations of robotics(plus comm delay and other factors). Still, a few people at a time for a few hours hopping around in impractical spacesuits on the closest and easiest to reach object of the sky isn't that cost-effective.
Human exploration by 2020 please.
I watch an episode of the Universe and they say a Nuclear fission space travel is still too slow if we intended to travel out of our solar system [editline]4th April 2012[/editline] Our first objective is to colonize the moon. Once we have a self sustaining moon base, then we can go to mars
Not a big surprise, Russia has been doing the supply-, and transport runs to the orbital space stations for a long while now. They if someone know their shit when it comes to space travel.
[QUOTE=Pelf;35420628]This type of propulsion isn't new. NASA already has an ion propulsion system on the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)]Dawn[/url] spacecraft which is currently orbiting Vesta. [/QUOTE] Too bad you're too involved in shooting brown people to bother with space so that gives the russians quite a headstart.
I thought there was a treaty which prohibits any nation on earth launching anything thermonuclear into earth orbit just in case something goes wrong and kills every one around it?
[QUOTE=Falchion;35422774]Too bad you're too involved in shooting brown people to bother with space so that gives the russians quite a headstart.[/QUOTE] Will you people stop with the shooting brown people thing, it is stupid and old. And yeah Russia is in absolute peace and is in no way fighting anyone okay.
Now all I need is some kind of immortality treatment and I'm set for eternity.
The fact it's nuclear kinda scares me a bit. Wouldn't a nuclear explosion in space be much more dangerous because the lack of gravity could propel the particles at very high speed and make them travel much faster and for much longer than on a planet with gravity and air friction ? But hey, it's probably just a step up to other safer technologies and so far nuclear energy has proven to be the best way to supply energy with the smallest environmental impact despite its relative danger.
now... we proceed to find prothean ruins on mars, mass-relays and the citadel just to discover that an all-female race got there before us. darn.
With the amount spent on the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other part, from other countries.. We could have probably had a small dome habitable for human life on the moon for the same cost.
[QUOTE=Marbalo;35426391]I dont understand why you people always get riled up about legitimate criticisms.[/QUOTE] I agree with you, but perhaps he thought Falchion was targeting him and not the american government It's true either way as people have said, if US Government didn't spend so much money on destroying another country they may or may not have been up to par with Russia already, if not further
Anyone else remember that news article about how there would be no interplanetary travel within this lifetime? It was predicted that it would not be until the year 3000 or something, it was a 2011 article.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;35426286]The fact it's nuclear kinda scares me a bit. Wouldn't a nuclear explosion in space be much more dangerous because the lack of gravity could propel the particles at very high speed and make them travel much faster and for much longer than on a planet with gravity and air friction ? But hey, it's probably just a step up to other safer technologies and so far nuclear energy has proven to be the best way to supply energy with the smallest environmental impact despite its relative danger.[/QUOTE] No, nuclear weapons have been exploded in orbit around Earth, atmosphere does a good job at keeping all the bad shit out.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;35419175]Nuclear? I was expecting Vodka-powered.[/QUOTE] The spaceship is nuclear powered. The astronauts are vodka powered.
[QUOTE=Omali;35426672]The spaceship is nuclear powered. The astronauts are vodka powered.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOX4ZWo5d_g[/media]
It's good to see that the Phobos-Grunt mission failure hasn't deterred them. :)
Fuck. Yes!
RT, is it worthy news?
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