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Wonder how fast they can travel to the moon with this?
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[QUOTE=kimr120;24040568]Wonder how fast they can travel to the moon with this?[/QUOTE] read above about an hour or so. [editline]07:23PM[/editline] And i actually think they took hawnkin's threat seriously.
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[QUOTE=StackOfPoo;24032561]It amuses me how ignorant people give an engine a top speed. Seriously folks, the speed reached depends on stuff like how heavy you are(thus how fast you can accelerate) and how long you can accelerate. Also you seem to be forgetting that in space we can't just hit the brakes and stop in a moment. We actually have to turn around and decelerate EXACTLY as long as we accelerated. ALSO, in space you just don't just fly in a straight line from point A to point B. You follow orbits etc.[/QUOTE] well sorry your highness!!
space captin launch all plasma rokets!!!! wtf is this scy fi!?!?!
Since there is no top speed in space, I guess this just means it accelerates really damn fast?
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;24012696]It takes 6 months with our current rockets... it even says in the fucking article... Also even if rocket technology was able to accelerate us to light speed in a instant, the main issue is doing so safely. If you accelerate to fast you're going to become a human soup against whatever you're sitting against.[/QUOTE] Yea when there is gravity to pull against you. In space gravity is far weaker and doesn't effect you or the ship as it does in the atmosphere.
[QUOTE=robowurmz;24044242]Since there is no top speed in space, I guess this just means it accelerates really damn fast?[/QUOTE] there is a top speed in space (the speed of light, though objects with mass cannot reach that speed under any circumstance) [editline]03:20PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Jurikuer;24044323]Yea when there is gravity to pull against you. In space gravity is far weaker and doesn't effect you or the ship as it does in the atmosphere.[/QUOTE] where the ISS is, gravity is pretty much the same it is on the surface ~ gravity just depends on your distance from a celestial object
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;24044330]there is a top speed in space (the speed of light, though objects with mass cannot reach that speed under any circumstance) [editline]03:20PM[/editline] where the ISS is, gravity is pretty much the same it is on the surface ~ gravity just depends on your distance from a celestial object[/QUOTE] Yes of course, the farther away you are from an object the less of an influence it has on you and ultimately everything influences everything. However that is the key, in space G forces don't pull you back as much as they do on the planet. And ISS isn't in outter space, it's barely outside the atmosphere, I'm talking more about beyond the Moon.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;24044435]Yes of course, the farther away you are from an object the less of an influence it has on you and ultimately everything influences everything. However that is the key, in space G forces don't pull you back as much as they do on the planet. And ISS isn't in outter space, it's barely outside the atmosphere, I'm talking more about beyond the Moon.[/QUOTE] just outside of the gravitational influence of earth, the sun's gravity is pulling a space craft with more force than earth's gravity is pulling on you from the surface
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;24012696]It takes 6 months with our current rockets... it even says in the fucking article... Also even if rocket technology was able to accelerate us to light speed in a instant, the main issue is doing so safely. If you accelerate to fast you're going to become a human soup against whatever you're sitting against.[/QUOTE] not in space i think
[QUOTE=FLIPPY;24045387]not in space i think[/QUOTE] erm, you experience g-forces during acceleration even in space.
[QUOTE=Yoces;24013711]Cool. If it wasn't because anyone sitting in it will [B]die[/B] a somewhat painful death.[/QUOTE] You can get in to space with a acceptable g-force then build up Energy from there preventing to much acceleration. The current spaceships don't do this because the fuel vs spaceship weight is not efficient enough. but since is this is more efficient and stronger it may just do the trick.
This rocket doesn't create excessive g-forces, this rocket actually creates less g-forces than a normal rocket, but burns for a lot longer, so it can reach a higher speed
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