This New Fusion Engine Will Cut The Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks

Business Insider ^ | 10/4/12 | Geoffrey Ingersoll

[Nachum]

Brace yourselves: Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using "Dilithium Crystals" in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now. Txchnologist, an online magazine sponsored by General Electric, talked to team member and aerospace engineering PH.D. candidate Ross Cortez, he said "The fusion fuel we're focusing on is deuterium [a stable isotope of hydrogen] and Li6 [a stable isotope of the metal lithium] in a crystal structure." "That's basically dilithium crystals we're using," he said (Snip) The

[Nachum]

Warp speed

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We can pay for it with Obamamoney.

[rsobin]

Star Trek is right again.

[GraceG]

Full Impulse POWAH!

[Buckeye McFrog]

So at which end of that trip is the dirt redder? Mars or Huntsville?

[Nachum]

Mars!? I HATE Mars!

Total recall mars landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXEK4XqL5rw

[Alex Murphy]

Brace yourselves: Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using "Dilithium Crystals" in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now.

Now we have to figure out how to slow it down....

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Six weeks - still would need a lot of movies or ebooks.

[Jack Hammer]

Look for the Plains of Mars soon to be littered with catalogs from Pottery Barn and announcements of winnings from Publisher’s Clearing House, while your first class letter languishes somewhere outside Peoria.

[Nachum]

Planetary Aero-Breaking as in 2012 Space Odyssey might work.

[Sybeck1]

Dilithium crystals have a history of being very short lived. You don’t want to be stuck out in space without extras. It’s not like there is a Harry Mudd on Uranus out there.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Glad to hear you do not have “Mudd on Uranus” but why did we need to know that?

[Iron Munro]

That’s quite a tecnological advance.

Now on to the next challenge:

How to slow down to a stop from 50,000 mph without turning the humans into grease spots on the bulkhead.

[BRK]

Any progress on transparent aluminum?

[OB1kNOb]

"Time for a little Rock and Roll!"

[dfwgator]

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Your mother told me there was no Harry Mudd on Uranus.

[piytar]

Actually about 6 months ago. Just Google it...

[oldfart]

Y’know, that just might be hairy mud but I can’t for the life of me understand the reference to uranus...

[Democrat_media]

bfl