Beautiful thank you

make it 30 seconds and we'll talk

clever but can you also act

How long will Royal Mail take?

30 seconds to mars

But gain of function research is to create bio weapons for humans not martians! 👽🤧

Would surely be better to stop making so called virus's .

holy shit this is a real thing

I'm an original citizen hahaha, it's probably all bullshit but you buy lottery tickets so why not citizenship xD

this.

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Check out this inflatable version!

https://www.space.com/30272-space-elevator-inflatable-concept-patent.html

Well its easier if you're starting up there in Canada

this could have the alternative effect of causing drag on the solar stream and switch off planetary turn.

i think they would be like any geo stationary satellite just with a long rope :)

You're right. Arthur C. Clarke touted the idea in one of the 2001 series. There's absolutely no reason that space elevators wouldn't work like a charm, once we have the knowhow and the engineering smarts to construct such an undertaking.

For those sceptics, it was also old Arty C who came up with the idea of geostationary orbits. Without him, the world would be a less well connected place. :-)

I'm so up for this. Always liked the idea of space travel but was put off by fear of the rockets bursting into flames. Getting an elevator up to a space station seems much more civilized. Hopefully there will be synth music and nice views on the way up.

Would cost to much to go nowhere + the size of the bottom would be colossal in size so it would require a vast amount of resources which humanity does not have. SpaceX is going in the right direction.

but it makes it into orbit, that's where all the revenue is. seems once you get it going its like the difference between a railroad and a stage coach.

Also works for deep space travel. Vessels can be built in space.

Wasn't that lift idea in that movie ? errr what's it called... the one where two guys put on special glasses and can see the real world underneath the one we see. ? my memory after a dooby ....tut tut ...it's gone gone ...:)

they live?

This is why I come to little biggy. How can the media not figure out this is more interesting than bitch fighting between politicians? I come here for this. And to get stoned.

everywhere is colonised with life of some sort.

aliens are all about the bling

A cool perspective, thank you. It seem time and space really are a package deal at this scale.

Reagan on Mars, I like the sound of that.

Nancy loved red

Wasn't their dog even called Rover?

Pretty sure he thought he was there the whole time ?

Have you heard of Project Orion, the pre Apollo nuclear spacecraft?

https://youtu.be/znmZeEycRwE

Die erste Mission, die als "Minimal" bezeichnet wird, sollte zwischen 1976 und 1986 stattfinden und Technologien auf Apollo-Niveau (das heißt, aus dem Jahr 1970) nutzen. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine frühere Phase, in der Raumfahrttechnologien noch nicht so weit fortgeschritten waren. Es sollten bestehende Technologien aus der Apollo-Ära verwendet werden, um das Ziel der Mission zu erreichen.

Die zweite Mission, genannt "Extended" (erweitert), sollte voraussichtlich in den Jahren 1982 bis 1986 stattfinden. Hierbei würden Technologien benötigt, die über den Stand der Apollo-Missionen hinausgehen. Diese Mission würde somit fortschrittlichere Technologien erfordern, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt entwickelt werden müssten, um die gesteckten Ziele zu erreichen.

Es ist wichtig zu beachten, dass sich die Raumfahrttechnologie im Zeitverlauf stetig weiterentwickelt und neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Die "Minimal"-Missionen nutzen vorhandene Technologien aus der Apollo-Ära, während die "Extended"-Mission auf fortschrittlichere Technologien angewiesen ist, die über den damaligen Stand der Technik hinausgehen.

Diese beiden Missionen spiegeln den Fortschritt und die Ambitionen der Raumfahrt in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren wider. Jede Mission erfordert spezifische Technologien und Ressourcen, um ihre Ziele erfolgreich zu erreichen und das Verständnis des Weltraums weiter voranzutreiben.

plus no Elon Musk!

🤯 Crazy! Saw an article about this the other day but didn’t get time to read it! Makes you wonder a bit why we are still plugging away with Mars… but I get the whole research thing..

I think first we need to just make it back to the moon 😂 I think a new date was set for that after it being postponed again.. Although I did watch an interesting vid the other day about lights in the dark side of the moon… but that may be getting a bit “tinfoil hat-ish” but if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/0VkK3NB9t2U

This is the coolest idea ever I think NASA is making a comeback.

very cool, thanks

Speaking of Next Generation this dude sounds a lot like Zefram Cochrane

once they get the printer in space they can build a space station!

Putting one on the moon would be perfect with all the raw materials to feed the printer you could build cities.

Also if they need more printers, they can just 3D print them

this is awesome they become almost disposable and each rocket printed can be improved based on the last launch. its almost like software when you can manipulate and reproduce on this level.

Can a light saiil be used on earth to propel motion?

Like this?

why is it either or?

like why sail the seas when we have so much to do here in medieval world?

It isn't binary. We reached for the moon primarily political reasons. Now it looks like we may go back for resource acquisition with a little science on the side. ?

Terraforming Mars is a joke for people like Elon Musk to sift money from Americans, nothing else.

It makes no sense to build on mars, we're hundreds of years from having the tech (assuming our civilization can survive that long, it wont why would it?) and the logical answer is surely that space stations would be much 'easier', safer, more efficient and more controlled than using Mars.... which isn't even as 'simple' as being a "dead earth".

I doubt we have the capacity to ever become a truly space faring species. It'll never be like the sci-fi and that's absolutely fine! I'm with you. Fix the fucking Earth! We've already got the most beautiful planet within a trillion mile radius.

Been saving the latest series of The Expanse so I can binge the whole thing, it been good?

i think its "sir" richard branson that's sifted the only money for tickets to space homey.

the best thing about space colonisation will be leaving nationalistic bullshit behind

Its great! Can’t belive holden died tho wtf…

Timmy! ? I've already dropped a spoiler. ?It's been one of my favourite seasons so far.

Anyway, you're on the money with what you said about our species future. ? I hope we're wrong.

I wonder if we will ever grow weed on mars..what kind of import would that be haha. <3

be careful, they sell fake martian bags on ebay

and we thought cali was overpriced haha <3

My 2cents… human lifespan is too short,we are too fragile to colonise planets..the end! ….it wont be humans that colonize planets it will be A.I (its already happening) and i agree with u lot, in 50years there will be no forests to clean up our pollution an we will suffocate/poison ourselves over time, we are literally Fudged becus of that stuff we call…. …. .. MONEY!

We could go to the dark heart of Chernobyl (taking that as an example of the most defiled place on Earth) and convert it into the Hanging Gardens Of Babylon, a true Paradise, for a tiny fraction of the cost, time and risk involved of creating a single habitable dome on Mars. We are so frikkin’ nuts! (no offence Pistach ! :))

It will never happen, money makes the world go round…or in our case, makes the world go down! Capitalism and greed have destroyed this planet, we will NEVER have the capability to leave our solar system, think about it,our cars break down, our devices crash and some parts of the earth have 0 wifi/phone signal… if we can’t get these things right we have 0 chance of leaving this rock, the rock that took millions of years to develop into a paradise and along came human beings and destroyed it in 122years… we are literally “PLANET EARTH’s HIV VIRUS”

Currently binging The Expanse on amazon. Loving it.

Thanks, I looked this up because, well Trekkie here and I couldn't believe it. It turns out the drive was conceived in the 1990s in Mexico City. It reconciles with Einstein's field equations and has only gained momentum since. Here is a vid.

haha awesome.
i wouldn't be surprised if they call it hyperspace when this becomes reality.

it's insane to think what life is going to be like in like 30 years time. sound like old men saying "I remember when we used to only have smartphones and aeroplanes!"

and it has an elevator

Gotta love the Star Trek stews

This wasn't "just invented" though, British Engineer Roger Shawyer invented it 5 years ago and licensed the tech to Nasa.

Don't matter son, that Em drives got the same sticker on it as my Chevy - Made in Texas.