Posted on 09/17/2018 4:44:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker
John Harrison in the 18th century spent 31 years of testing and designing the first Chronometer to tell time, and thus allow for accurate navigation at sea. He never completely won the equivalent of nearly 3 million for a life’s work in doing it.
The Chronometer revolutionized sailing and sea travel enabling England to efficiently maintain its force sea projection and eventual rise to meteoric status as the largest Empire the world has ever seen.
My wife has quantised inertia (QI) – through which she believes light can`t be converted into thrust coz she likes it in the dark.
unruh. The sound of billions of photons grunting as they push the spacecraft.
1.3 million? Hmmmm... Chump change for something like this. They’ll be back for more $$ in no time.
Once our govt starts giving out grants for research into “theories”, it never stops. Just look at the global warming\climate change racket.
Lithium Crystals? Are you crazy? First we have to get to that planet that has it so we can mine some. Sheesh.
What happens when the solar pressure drops off?....or you get caught in cross currents from other stars?
“Only needs electricity’? That would make for an awful long extension cord.
Where can you get the Spice?
Apollo 11 weighed 6.8 million pounds on the gantry. Almost 6 million of that was fuel and oxidant. It burned 78 tons of fuel/ox before it cleared the gantry and 4.5 million pounds in the first 180 seconds after ignition.
If you had that weight in gasoline and a car that got 30 mpg, you could drive it about 22 million miles. The moon is only ~235,000 miles away.
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