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What will be the first technology to achieve affordable ways to orbit?
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:33 pm
I love scifi and in the books I read there is a plethora of ideas and concepts to help break free from Earths gravity, but realistically what do you think will be the first technology to deliver a reasonable payload safely into orbit?
I love the idea of a space elevator and given advances in material science with things like carbon nanotubes this might one day be feasible. Man kinds biggest obstacle in being a truly spacefaring race is just getting off this rock in the first place.
I love the idea of a space elevator and given advances in material science with things like carbon nanotubes this might one day be feasible. Man kinds biggest obstacle in being a truly spacefaring race is just getting off this rock in the first place.
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Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
Transporting, ala star trek style
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
Railgun
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
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What will be the first technology to achieve affordable ways to orbit?
LSD
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
Big jacked up 747 with truck nuts hanging off the back and a sticker on the tail that says
"Oil field trash spendin oil field cash"
"Oil field trash spendin oil field cash"
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:37 pm to BRgetthenet
Don't forget about the naked lady mud flaps
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:38 pm to BRgetthenet
I would love to see a pair of nuts dangling from the backside of the ISS. Unfortunately it would cost probably 10k in taxpayer dollars to get them there, which might be worth it.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:51 pm to DavidTheGnome
cocaine
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:58 pm to DavidTheGnome
Elon Musk and Tesla's electric powered orbit blaster
Posted on 4/4/16 at 9:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Man kinds biggest obstacle in being a truly spacefaring race is just getting off this rock in the first place.
But where would we go?
Posted on 4/4/16 at 9:56 pm to DavidTheGnome
My Dad always told me that if I talked back one more time he would knock me to the moon. I never tested his promise but it seems like a pretty cheap way to escape Earth's gravitation pull.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 10:42 pm to LSUtigerME
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But where would we go?
I would imagine first and foremost to collect and mine resources in the asteroid belt etc. long term it would be good to diversify our living situation just in case of a cataclysmic event on earth.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 10:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 4/4/16 at 10:54 pm to LSUtigerME
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But where would we go?
Everywhere
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