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To Mars and Back in Ninety Days
paltemalte writes "A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space. In fact, with magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or mag-beam, quick trips to distant parts of the solar system could become routine, said Robert Winglee, a UW Earth and space sciences professor who is leading the project."
You could build a rocket with a boiler that burned pieces of the ISS. At least *that* would be putting it to good use...
Oh! Sh!t we shoot the cabin insteed of the sail !
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
I poo-poo your silly idea Philleas Fog.. It's impossible and I'll wager my reputation that you won't make it from the Gentleman's Club in London to Mars and back within 90 days!
You forgot the best:
Press 'H' to jump into hyperspace.
for 1 moment there an image of a callcenter full of indians located on the barren sands of mars crossed my mind...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Just send a diplomat to Mars, establish a trade agreement and an alliance with them and build a road.
Then we can quickly invade when they least expect it. When you play enough Rome Total War these things become soooo obvious.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
you're suggesting congress is being ran by Vulcans? Which is nowhere near as funny as actually being moderated interesting for it ;-)
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
I'm sorry sir, but you must now relinquish your Slashdot UID and turn in your geek card. Someone will escort you to the exit.
What about wrapping around the screen though?
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Do not trust the pusher satellite. Pushing will protect you from the terrible secret of space. Do you have stairs at your house?
Stop learning! Only you can prevent esoterrorism.
Scientists have come up with a cheap and reusable method of getting to orbit and traveling about the cosmose. Utilizing the effect of slashdotting a website, we beam those hits against a reflective matterial on the space craft that will allow network packets to propell it in to orbit and beyond. To slow down a craft ariving at it's destination, a special set of mirrors will be setup to redirect traffic to the front of the ship where another reflector will slow down the craft...
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
I imagine Gravity had a hand in it.
A trebuchet!
SYS 49152
That's not what I heard.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Oh SURE. Outsource that TOO.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
All you have to do is reroute power from the phaser bank to the deflector array.
This planets got three moons,
So you were at that party too?
... getting a fully functional industrialised moon base will make launches like this a thousand times more doable. ...
The problem here is that eventually the nuclear waste piles up, explodes, and sends the entire planetary body sailing across the universe--initiating cheesey adventures each week for those left alive...