Moontanman Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Great for interplanetary (about a month to Mars with a mass ratio of 10) Not so great for interstellar. My vote for interstellar travel goes to magnetic sails, they will be slow but they'll get you there.... Generation type ships will be the ticket for sure unless some bright boy or girl comes up with some sort of warp drive type effect but we can't count on that can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRlogic Posted September 24, 2010 Author Share Posted September 24, 2010 (edited) My vote for interstellar travel goes to magnetic sails, they will be slow but they'll get you there.... Generation type ships will be the ticket for sure unless some bright boy or girl comes up with some sort of warp drive type effect but we can't count on that can we? if we improve our ionic propulsion system to establish at least a faster interplanetary travel. but for interstellar travel we could use dark matter to fold space in front of us and stretch it behind us thus traveling faster than light when our ship will barely be moving at all Edited September 24, 2010 by MRlogic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IM Egdall Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 if we improve our ionic propulsion system to establish at least a faster interplanetary travel. but for interstellar travel we could use dark matter to fold space in front of us and stretch it behind us thus traveling faster than light when our ship will barely be moving at all Huh? Why dark matter and not ordinary matter? Do you have a link which explains how this theoretically would work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRlogic Posted September 26, 2010 Author Share Posted September 26, 2010 Huh? Why dark matter and not ordinary matter? Do you have a link which explains how this theoretically would work? dark matter over powers matter 5/1. if we could harness that matter it would cause an imbalance in space thus being able to bend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 dark matter over powers matter 5/1. if we could harness that matter it would cause an imbalance in space thus being able to bend it. Is this what you are talking about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive if so it takes negative energy and negative mass not dark matter.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRlogic Posted September 27, 2010 Author Share Posted September 27, 2010 yes thats right but i dont know about dark energy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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