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NASA plans to use the sun as a telescope...
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, Mar 20 2017 09:17 PM
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Posted 20 March 2017 - 09:17 PM
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 08:34 AM
Future ion engines may be able to provide constant thrust to accelerate something perpetually so that it won't take the 150+ years it'd take with conventional launch vehicles alone to go 550 AU. Would still likely take decades. And once you're there, it'll take a week to get every message to the vehicle and back and forth, so it would need to be nearly autonomous. Would need a pretty large amount of plutonium initially so that your RTG can still generate enough power after decades worth of decay.
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 08:46 AM
Future ion engines may be able to provide constant thrust to accelerate something perpetually so that it won't take the 150+ years it'd take with conventional launch vehicles alone to go 550 AU. Would still likely take decades. And once you're there, it'll take a week to get every message to the vehicle and back and forth, so it would need to be nearly autonomous. Would need a pretty large amount of plutonium initially so that your RTG can still generate enough power after decades worth of decay.
I agree with this completely.
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 08:56 AM
I agree with this completely.
Even the part about the RTG's requirements for plutonium payload? Are you sure about that?
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 08:58 AM
I agree with this completely.
Odds Mackus could convince you the Earth is flat?
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 09:03 AM
The biggest problem with most interesting ideas for space exploration:
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 10:23 AM
Even the part about the RTG's requirements for plutonium payload? Are you sure about that?
Yea I debated that one. But ya gotta have plutonium
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Posted 21 March 2017 - 10:28 AM
Odds Mackus could convince you the Earth is flat?
If he gives me a brisket recipe I'm all ears
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Posted 30 April 2017 - 02:47 PM
It's all a computer simulation. The sun isn't even real. And whatever we are living on is most certainly flat - you idiots keep believing the crap CGI pictures that NASA is feeding you.
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Posted 30 April 2017 - 07:49 PM
It's all a computer simulation. The sun isn't even real. And whatever we are living on is most certainly flat - you idiots keep believing the crap CGI pictures that NASA is feeding you.
Cha, wake up, sheeple!
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