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Looks like an early generation of a Guild Heighliner from the "Dune" universe sans forced evolved spice addicted navigators folding space. The concept is the same. Smaller vessels use the vessel to get to where they need to go and get out.
1 posted on 08/26/2016 6:27:49 AM PDT by C19fan
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Wonder how they would do frequent flier miles...


2 posted on 08/26/2016 6:32:04 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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All aboard the Solar Express! Radical train concept could travel at 3,000km/s and take man to Mars in just 37 HOURS

After a lay over in Atlanta.

3 posted on 08/26/2016 6:32:23 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This space available)
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Sci-Fi concept art masquerading as science.


4 posted on 08/26/2016 6:32:58 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Yes, I am voting for Donald Trump.)
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I can hear Ralph Kramden now: “You’re goin to da moon, Alice! Bang! Zoom!”


5 posted on 08/26/2016 6:35:10 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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What would it do and where would it go when the earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun?


6 posted on 08/26/2016 6:35:53 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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Beaming me aboard would be quicker...just sayin’.


7 posted on 08/26/2016 6:36:37 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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9 posted on 08/26/2016 6:44:50 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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What’s the point? You still need to accelerate cargo at launch and decelerate it at its destination, so why not just fling containers and catch them when they arrive?


11 posted on 08/26/2016 6:46:00 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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The devil is in the details. If there are human passengers, there is the time taken to move up to 3,000 kilometers per second. While moving up to the cruising speed, G-forces will be experienced by all humans. Will they be able to walk around during this period? I think not. The same goes for the deceleration phase. I suspect, if someone does the math, the time for acceleration and deceleration will take up more than a few hours.


16 posted on 08/26/2016 6:57:01 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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Not sure I see much point. You have to accelerate to the speed of the train to ride it, and you have to decelerate yourself when you approach your destination. Any resupply for the train also has to be accelerated so it can be loaded, so you’re really not getting much benefit from riding vs doing the whole trip yourself. About the only thing you do gain is that because the “train” can be bigger since it can accelerate over a long time rather than needing to do it all at once, it can carry a more comfortable living environment, since it can be resupplied in stages and you won’t consume the entire environment on your trip. At a SWAG, this might make for a small efficiency savings overall on an interplanetary mission, but only to destinations that the “train” serves, and only if you use the train over and over again. If you only do a few missions, and then something better comes along, it’ll all go to waste.


19 posted on 08/26/2016 7:01:04 AM PDT by Little Pig
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If you have to accelerate a smaller vessel to get on, then jump off and decelerate on arrival, what have you gained exactly?

23 posted on 08/26/2016 7:33:49 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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This ‘train’ does not slow down to pick up passengers. In order to match speeds to catch up with the train, you are already goi g fast enough to go to your Mars destination without the train and as g forces need to be in the 1 g range (except for short periods) it would take more than the 37 hours to safely attain such speeds.
Perhaps a long bungee cord to slowly bring one up to speed. Now we are in the realm of road runner and coyote.


24 posted on 08/26/2016 7:42:49 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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The hype didn’t fool FR readers. They understood the acceleration/ deceleration problem right away.


26 posted on 08/26/2016 8:01:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer.)
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“sans forced evolved spice addicted navigators folding space”

Where is the fun in that?!?


27 posted on 08/26/2016 8:01:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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This concept actually isn’t bad, but would be much more feasible to put something like this in permanent translunar orbit. Mars and Earth have no simple orbital resonance, so you would be aiming at a constantly moving target, whereas with the moon, you can put it in one orbit and then only use fuel to maintain that orbit.

Then, we would only need to launch things into earth orbit, they could rendevouz with the “train” there, and hop off at the moon, where they need very little fuel to descend to the surface.

I think I have my next project for Kerbal space program :D


29 posted on 08/26/2016 8:07:37 AM PDT by Boogieman
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3000 km/sec is 100 times the speed of the Earth orbiting the Sun.

Such a craft would not go to Mars; it would depart the Solar System for intergalactic space in short order.


35 posted on 08/26/2016 9:39:23 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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