Travel to Mars in 3 hours (Air force studies Trek tech)

The Scotsman ^ | January 5 2006 | Ian Johnston

[Savage Beast]

It's the law for this universe, but what about all the others??? Apparently there's an unlimited number of them--and they're all equal.

It's kinda like women can drive cars in this universe, but what about the Islamic one?

When the Leftist countercultural iniative finally succeeds in destroying the West and catapulting us all into the Islamic universe, and women (and the men who love them driving the kids to school) lament the establishment of the shariah as international law--we must remind them of the universe they left behind--and how they got where they are--and that, just as Einstein said, it's all relative--and that, just as the Leftists say, all universes are equal--and to see the humor.

[bessay]

"... where the speed of light is faster ..."

Of course, since we can't know the properties of another dimension or alternate universe in advance, the speed of light might be 3 mph.

[M203M4]

Oh. It is of course possible that there is a "neutral electron" that has just eluded us. I don't want to give the impression that people have given up pouring over the data in the 40 GeV range (for neutral leptons). But working out the cross sections would be more conclusive.

[RosieCotton]

LOL!

I like that movie.

[bessay]

..."I don't want to give the impression that people have given up pouring over the data in the 40 GeV range (for neutral leptons). But working out the cross sections would be more conclusive."....

At 63 GeV it is postulated that gluons will weaken into their poorer in-laws, the klingons.

[Rebelbase]

"I would have liked Montana"......(dies)

[JimRed]

I don't think it takes 3 hours for light to get from Earth to Mars.

That's using impulse drive; warp drive is wasteful for short trips.

[50sDad]

I say we give Mars to the Islamofacists. They can found a perfectly balanced Muslim society underground...and see how well living in the middle ages prepares you to operate an oxygen-scrubber. Once locked in the gravity well of Mars with no Stargate, let's see how many billions of years of peace and freedom the rest of us have while they are happy in Coventry.

[calljack]

Well, Einstein did say "E=MC squared, and this may be a local phenomenon"

[airborne]

PING to PING your space PING list.

[GOPJ]

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

Hitting our exact "dimension" might be harder than they know...

[handk]

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

[SlowBoat407]

I'm curious are there any new technologies developed by people of today.. Everything I've seen recently has been based off of technology or papers that were published in the 50's and earlier...

My father spent 30 years at NASA, from 1959 to 1989, and he constantly complains that the technology of today is based on discoveries and theories from before 1975. Could it be a tax code thing from the days of Jimmy Carter, where R&D dollars are no longer protected from taxes?

[GeraldP]

Space ping material?

[SlowBoat407]

It was pounds and Newtons.

Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.

[ParityErr]

With my luck my luggage would be re-routed to venus.

[Dead Corpse]

Einstein-Rosen bridges. Wornholes. M-brane theories n-Dimensions. 4 of which on top of this one that gravity operates in.

I hope it pans out for them.

[r9etb]

Yeah, the Newtons sure do put on the pounds.

I must be psychic -- I predicted that somebody would reply in exactly that way.... ;-)

[Recovering Hermit]

Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension...

Hopefully this would also include the rest of the spacecraft.

[RightWhale]

Sounds fantastic; it might be noted that a good fraction of the real science that is being done in outer space, the part directed outward rather than toward earth resources, is being accomplished by European programs. The private sector might be developing TV and tourism and NASA might be doing the spectaculars, but science is increasingly the baliwick of Europe.