Mae Jemison, Who Was the First Black Woman in Space, Will Now Lead 100-Year Starship Project - Polidicks

Didn't knew about this

[QUOTE=VaSTinY;34076326]How the hell would the humans that grow up inside that even know what to do when they arrive? It would be like neanderthals all over again constructing a new language from scratch and shit when they start getting to the age of comprehending stuff[/QUOTE] Automated training programs.

[QUOTE=Contag;34076235]*blink* It's almost as though this organization composed of extremely qualified people led by an extremely qualified person and funded by one of the most innovative organizations [I]never thought of such a thing[/I] oh wait that's stupid, of course they did e.g.[/QUOTE] Unsurprisingly, it was Darth Venter (Biologist joke) who made that proposal. Hey Venter, managed to create a fully artificial cell yet? Didn't think so. The man's a genius, but a completely arrogant ballsack of one.

[QUOTE=Craigewan;34076493]Unsurprisingly, it was Darth Venter (Biologist joke) who made that proposal. Hey Venter, managed to create a fully artificial cell yet? Didn't think so. The man's a genius, but a completely arrogant ballsack of one.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure he did actually. Not going to argue about the complete and utter arrogance. If these things become viable on an industrial scale we might be averting fucking societal breakdown from lack of viable fuel. EDIT: [url]http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Craigewan;34076493]Unsurprisingly, it was Darth Venter (Biologist joke) who made that proposal. Hey Venter, managed to create a fully artificial cell yet? Didn't think so. The man's a genius, but a completely arrogant ballsack of one.[/QUOTE] It is funded by DARPA, which means there are going to be plenty of nutzo arrogrant geniuses

[QUOTE=Sanius;34072346]to boldy use split infinitives like no man has done before[/QUOTE] Strong, vibrant and independent space woman who needs no alien men! Jokes aside, fingers crossed!

[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;34076460]I've heard that being in Space slows down your age for some reason.[/QUOTE] It doesn't, unless you were somehow travelling beyond the speed of light if I recall correctly.

[QUOTE=Gentlemanne;34077136]It doesn't, unless you were somehow travelling beyond the speed of light if I recall correctly.[/QUOTE] That's not correct time dilation is a normal occurrence, it's just that you wouldn't notice unless you were an atomic clock

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34075866]I wonder when will some astrophysicist finally tell them that with the speeds that we can even imagine achieving with our technology, even with 100 years of flight time, you don't get anywhere.[/QUOTE] [URL=http://projectrho.com/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Valkyrie_Antimatter_Starship]Republican[/URL] [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#Nicoll-Dyson_Laser]pseudorealist[/URL] [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp]propaganda[/URL]

difference in time experienced in two reference frames by the speed of light [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Time_dilation.svg[/img] of course, if you look at someone traveling close to the speed of light, they would look [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose-Terrell_rotation]all kinds of fucked up[/URL] I wonder if an anti-matter catalyzed fusion propulsion system would be tenable if we had a sufficient orbital installation around the Moon or Mars

You need power for the antimatter, and it'd be expensive to build the PV arrays and the supercollider in space. Mercury and the Moon are the only suitable places to turn into a power plant, Mars being too far and Venus being too horrible and the Earth being full of people.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;34077284]You need power for the antimatter, and it'd be expensive to build the PV arrays and the supercollider in space. Mercury and the Moon are the only suitable places to turn into a power plant, Mars being too far and Venus being too horrible and the Earth being full of people.[/QUOTE] Is it not feasible to harvest the antimatter from the orbits of planetary bodies? I remember reading a proposal about it recently here

[QUOTE=Contag;34077339]Is it not feasible to harvest the antimatter from the orbits of planetary bodies? I remember reading a proposal about it recently here[/QUOTE] I don't think you can harvest more than some nanograms. It may be enough to catalyze fusion towards Mars but for an interstellar trip I don't see it getting you past 5% of c.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;34077895]I don't think you can harvest more than some nanograms. It may be enough to catalyze fusion towards Mars but for an interstellar trip I don't see it getting you past 5% of c.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I looked into the numbers and proposed spacecraft and even if you're harvesting 100% of the antimatter around Saturn it's pretty shit god damn