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Hydrocarbon lakes discovered on Titan
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time for me to start building that spaceship.
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Too bad you would die before you reach it...
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but a rover would not die... why would you send people there before you send a rover to check things out. thats like traveling through the deepest parts of the amazon and you be the first person to explore all the creepy places with out sending your slaves in first.
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thats what blacks are for
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you sir are a racist douche, please go fuck yourself
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I never said we shouldn't explore it, I said humans would die before they got there.
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Actually I lied, it would just take a really long time.
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"took seven years to reach Saturn." thats not that long compared to other places in space.
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yeh mitch thats true....but that is why we should evelop a better propellsion system that gives maximum velocity and exelleration instantaneously....becasue in space all the ship has to do is give 1 hard push and the shipp will continue to travel at that speed becasue there is nothing to slow it down...no friction...nothing...
so there are more possible ways to speed the vessel up...
faster ship=less time thinking..."are we there yet?"
then getting there and finding nothing is there...and it just took you like 30 years to get there....hahaha...it would be the best ownage in the universe.
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get like a 4 year old to go...if the trip takes 20 years there and back the guy would be 44 when he's home..then he can start skiing
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I totally agree, but in order to create such a significant acceleration you would need the power of nuclear combustion, and that's not a good thing. We will have to try and figure out a way to improve propulsion, I'm sure it's in the near future with NASA's budget.
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Nuclear power IS the future of space travel.
Nuclear power already powers submarines and aircraft carriers. Nuclear power would allow the ships to carry far less fuel.
The reason they haven't used it is the obvious risk if the ship were to crash on takeoff, back into the earth.
So basically until they create a safe mechanism to get ships into space (ie a space elevator) they will most likely not use nuclear.
Two other possibilities are an Ion Drive and an Anitmatter Drive, but those are a longggggg ways away.
Oh and a human can withstand very very very little accelration, so sending them off in one big explosion is a no-go.
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no the new way to travel in space will be solar sails. They are these huge fucking sheets (like size of football fields) that expand once in space and are propelled be rays from the sun. The sheets are made out of some crazy material that catches sun rays and pushes the ships. It has a slow acceleration but can get to very fast speeds due to the size of the sails. Count Dooku in Star wars 2 had one of these things.
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i honestly don't think so. i know the brother of the guy who made the white knight(winner of the comercial space race thing) and they are both geniouses. and i was talking to him about his brothers whole spaceship thing and why NASA hasn't done much. he said that NASA is way far behind and are still running off computers from a while back and older technology. and they havn't been trying to figure out much more than that what they already have, such as the spaceshuttles the are using now. he said they have kinda a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" veiwpoint. i guess his brother created his own jet fuel mixture and all this crazy stuff. he is real interesting to talk to.
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isnt like after a while in space ur bones start to like dezolve almost caus of the lack of gravitiy er sumthin like that?
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Which is why I said nuclear power could be a bad thing...
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Umm yes, but they still have a ridiculous budget, they just spend it on experiments not equipment.
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so where is titan i've never even heard of this
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oo, this stuff is so cool, makes you think
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I once had a fantastic idea for maximum speed in space. I was thinking of creating a gigantic gun and the spaceship would fit inside like a bullet. The gun would fire and the ship would be coming out at an incredibly alarming speed, the only problem would be slowing it down.
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space elevator? not gonna happen.
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haha, your stupid
It will happen, one day
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One day far far in the future, and probably on the moon first. The resources and technology needed to do that are far beyond what we could muster at our current rate of space tech development. It would take like an asteroid discovered 125 years away from impact to mobilize the entire globe to work on the thing and actually get one working, if it would be possible.
Also, for anyone that is confused, a Space Elevator is a sci-fi idea that has some facts based in actual theory. A space elevator would be pretty much like a giant cable attached to earth's equator that reaches out all the way into space, and is attached to some kind of orbiting counterweight. The tension on the thing would be incredible, beyond what we can do right now, and the thing would actually have to be literally 'dropped' out of space and 'landed' on the ground, another technological nightmere. It would make getting something into space very cheap and energy efficent however, and would be essential for any kind of long term human space endevor.
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sounds like their just a couple billion years behind us evolutionarily
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