RE: Star Wars New Teaser
October 25, 2015 at 9:20 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2015 at 9:23 am by Fake Messiah.)
Well I think it's kind of sad that people in this day of age are still fantasizing about "what's out there" rather then going and exploring it. The movies that hold biggest interest with people seem to be of space exploaration, like "Martian", "Star Trek", "Avatar" now "Star Wars".
Just imagine in the 1960s, the United States had a program called NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications) that built and ground tested about a dozen NTR engines in sizes ranging from 10,000 lb thrust all the way up to 250,000 lb thrust.
With it, you could send jumbo jet sized payloads to the Moon, or send a crew to Mars in 3 months and even explore our solar system better, faster and cheaper. These engines really worked, and really delivered specific impulses of over 800 seconds, far beyond the wildest dreams of any chemical rocket engineer. Wernher von Braun planned to use NTRs as the propulsion system for the manned Mars mission NASA hoped to follow Apollo with by the early 1980s. But when the Nixon administration pulled the plug on NASA’s post-Apollo Mars plans, the NERVA program went down the drain as well. The engines were never flight tested and the ground test facilities were left to rust.
It would be really nice if such hype that these space movies are creating actually leads to something bigger like renewal of interest in outer space and not just this:
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Just imagine in the 1960s, the United States had a program called NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications) that built and ground tested about a dozen NTR engines in sizes ranging from 10,000 lb thrust all the way up to 250,000 lb thrust.
With it, you could send jumbo jet sized payloads to the Moon, or send a crew to Mars in 3 months and even explore our solar system better, faster and cheaper. These engines really worked, and really delivered specific impulses of over 800 seconds, far beyond the wildest dreams of any chemical rocket engineer. Wernher von Braun planned to use NTRs as the propulsion system for the manned Mars mission NASA hoped to follow Apollo with by the early 1980s. But when the Nixon administration pulled the plug on NASA’s post-Apollo Mars plans, the NERVA program went down the drain as well. The engines were never flight tested and the ground test facilities were left to rust.
It would be really nice if such hype that these space movies are creating actually leads to something bigger like renewal of interest in outer space and not just this:
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
