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DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group

coondoggie writes "What started out as an idea about how to further explore the outer reaches of space is now beginning to take more serious shape as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today issued a call for industry information on how to form such as cosmic entity. Specifically DARPA said it issued a Request For Information intended to solicit ideas and information on structure and approach, and identify parties qualified and interested in furthering what's known as the 100 Year Starship project."

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  1. My ship has come in by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm just gonna download the entire Baen Library, reformat it and send it to DARPA.

    Profit!

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!