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NASA news: Caltech nanomaterial ‘speeds spacecraft 134,000,000 mph’
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| 09/09/2018
Posted on 09/09/2018 3:11:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: TChad; ProtectOurFreedom
The craft would turn itself or its sails around the halfway point, duh. Actually, they'd probably be furled after the craft hits heliopause.
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:49:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: TChad
"R"
To: BenLurkin
Does anyone know how to do the kinetic energy calculation for a micron size speck of space dust striking a sail or a space craft at 134 million miles per hour?
Second question - how do you slow down when you get to your destination?
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:53:26 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: PIF
Cool. So almost 20% of the speed of light. Pretty fast.. Theoretically you could send a probe a light year away in ~5 years.
To: FrankR
How about brakes; whats the manual give as the stopping distance at such speeds? The sails use light from our Sun to accelerate. They will likewise use the light from the destination star to slow down.
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:54:52 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
To: fieldmarshaldj; texas booster
Is there a “FoldingSpace@Home” project? ;^)
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:55:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: fieldmarshaldj
You can use computers until the Butlerian jihad.
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:57:08 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
To: Flash Bazbeaux
I hope I dont have to pay for this. There is nothing out there and we are dead broke.
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:57:11 PM PDT
by
raiderboy
(Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
To: Seruzawa
Giving the Centauris 17 years advance warning. At least, if any of them have read their Niven and Pournelle.
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posted on
09/09/2018 3:59:10 PM PDT
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
To: Seruzawa
Yep. 21 years to get to Centauri. Still too slow.
worse, there is deceleration time to be figured in either by reverse burn or orbital braking.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:01:05 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: fieldmarshaldj
It sounds like I can power it from take off with the flash on my IPhone if I take 17 trillion pictures in a row.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:01:12 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: BenLurkin
At that speed wonder how they can avoid the rocks in space.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:10:47 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: Flash Bazbeaux
I wouldn’t want to hit dust at that speed.
Basically ifthat speed could be obtained we’d be potentially (because slowing down would be just as hard as speeding up and the craft may have been damaged but not destroyed or have had a malfunction in flight) turning out probe into a cosmic event for whatever starsystem was unlucky enough to have it aimed at them.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:13:57 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Vaduz
Lots and lots of praying.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:15:31 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: BenLurkin
I thought the speed of light was 186,000 miles/sec. what am I reading wrong?
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:17:01 PM PDT
by
camle
(keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: camle
miles/sec versus miles/hour.. ok...
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:17:41 PM PDT
by
camle
(keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Telepathic Intruder
From the source, it appears it was written by pit bulls.
To: BenLurkin
Is this a result of 0bama’s Muslim outreach project?
In his speeches mostly about himself lately, surely he would have mentioned that.
What would America do without 0bama’s wisdom?
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:33:29 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: BenLurkin
I’ll get to Proxima Centauri before they will.
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posted on
09/09/2018 4:45:50 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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