Aren't you just impatient until your baby is old enough so that you can watch "Lawrence Of Arabia" for the 1st time?
Come on you people you all know real life around Alpha Centauri is around gas giant where there's a moon where blue skinned intelligent tall beings that have face like cats live.
It may be possible to thrust nanosatelite with mass between 1 and 10 kilograms with lasers but not by pushing them with photons but evaporating sails which generates a vapor or plasma jet which is about a thousand times greater than that gained from photon propulsion. This concept could use lasers that are currently produced, which have an optical power of between a few watts to several kilowatts, rather than the several gigawatts that a photon propulsion system would need.
And if people did have powerful laser they could I guess also be used to be focused onto a boiler full of propellant on-board some spacecraft. As the propellant expands, it would escape through a nozzle and provide the propulsion. In that way you could have much bigger spaceship.
But then we could always use atom bombs. Gather something like 600 atom bombs and let them blast really huge spacecraft with fancy equipment to the nearest star in just few decades (something like 10 years per light-year).
Come on you people you all know real life around Alpha Centauri is around gas giant where there's a moon where blue skinned intelligent tall beings that have face like cats live.
(August 25, 2016 at 1:42 am)Little lunch Wrote: Apparently some billionare Russian is putting in a fuckload of cash to invent a postage stamp size spaceship that will travel there on a laser beam and would only take twenty years.
It may be possible to thrust nanosatelite with mass between 1 and 10 kilograms with lasers but not by pushing them with photons but evaporating sails which generates a vapor or plasma jet which is about a thousand times greater than that gained from photon propulsion. This concept could use lasers that are currently produced, which have an optical power of between a few watts to several kilowatts, rather than the several gigawatts that a photon propulsion system would need.
And if people did have powerful laser they could I guess also be used to be focused onto a boiler full of propellant on-board some spacecraft. As the propellant expands, it would escape through a nozzle and provide the propulsion. In that way you could have much bigger spaceship.
But then we could always use atom bombs. Gather something like 600 atom bombs and let them blast really huge spacecraft with fancy equipment to the nearest star in just few decades (something like 10 years per light-year).
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"
