Rocket Ronnie - 7/12/2005 9:58 AMLooks like the speed is not going to be impossible, but don't you simply lose acceleration, regardless how much power you throw at it, as you get closer to light speed, before never actually breaching it?
Justin Space - 7/12/2005 10:43 AMWhat a great read. There must be a way around Einstein's boundaries of travelling faster than the speed of light?
Justin Space - 7/12/2005 3:43 PMThere must be a way around Einstein's boundaries of travelling faster than the speed of light?
Looks like the speed is not going to be impossible, but don't yousimply lose acceleration, regardless how much power you throw at it, asyou get closer to light speed, before never actually breaching it?
nacnud - 8/12/2005 1:21 PMQuoteLooks like the speed is not going to be impossible, but don't yousimply lose acceleration, regardless how much power you throw at it, asyou get closer to light speed, before never actually breaching it?No accelleration stays the same, its time that gets all weird. (as well as mass and lenght)
Avron - 9/12/2005 12:45 AMWierd like the warping of space-time... small engineering challange... Humm from our view on earth, what would a spacecraft look like moving away from us at light speed?
braddock - 9/12/2005 12:53 PMIt couldn't move AT light speed, because that would require infinite energy.
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Quote from: mikorangester on 03/25/2011 04:37 amNoThe whole point of project Deadalus was to show that interstellar spaceflight was possible. Even though it is unaffordable now, in one or two centuries the economy will have grown enough to afford a Deadalus.But at that time there will probably have been a breakthrough. General relativity is really only an approximation of how gravity works. So there might be *glitches* that we will be able to use.Lastly, as the biological singularity comes near, interstellar spaceflight becomes possible within a lifetime for a very simple reason.
You don't even need to be so advanced as Daedalus, a Project Orion would fill the job fine.
Quote from: Downix on 03/25/2011 06:13 amYou don't even need to be so advanced as Daedalus, a Project Orion would fill the job fine.Oh heck we've already started on "Interstellar" space flight and without even using an "Orion-Boom-Boom" vehicle! We used a couple of Titan-III/Centaurs in fact!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1Now if you want to get anywhere in less than a geological time frame....Randy