A decent ion engine, such as the one which powered Deep Space 1, required most of the spacecraft's 2.4 kW of power, and that was to get a 500kg craft around.
Ion drive thrust increases with power input. So, in order to move an asteroid about within our lifetimes you're probably going to need several football fields of panels, not to mention either a large number of actual engines, or a new breed of them. (And try getting all that to the asteroid in the first place).
The whole benefit of ion engines is that you require less fuel on your spacecraft due to higher isp. If you can figure out how to use materials on the asteroid for chemical rockets, do it.. if you don't, you're still going to be pushing that mass with an ion engine anyway.
Slashdot user, I curse thee: may thou remainest as unpopular as thou was in high-school. may thou only be able to find jobs, of service sector, that are unpleasant and degrading. may thou remainest a virgin forever, or failing that, may thou experience sexual relations only sporadically, monogamously, and with a partner of considerable girth but lax hygeine standards.
Mods: Overrated is not short for "I'm going to disagree with you using my points". If you want to disagree, then post.
You know, you're just asking to get modded down(unfairly) with a sig like that. On the rare occasions I've had points of my own, I've used them to penalize people who I disagreed with. I've even downmodded someone just for having any whiny signature similar to yours.
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Imagine yourself working 12 hours a day in a factory and sleeping in a dormitory in the same fucking factory! No intimacy, no sex life, no love, no children, no family life,...now dare tell me this is not a soulless slave life!!! And at the same time you enjoy your ipod.
Dude, those things are great! I can fit like 2000 songs on mine, and everything's categorized to my liking. I have one of the newer photo ones, with a sweet 220x176-pixel LCD display. It can receive photos from my digital camera, or I can hook it up to my TV(!) and make slideshows. Although all I have right now are a bunch of pictures of my dog. LOL.
Did you buy one of those sleeves for yours? I heard they scratched easily so I bought a blue one for mine.
Hell, the game I play almost 24/7 (see sig) requires only a browser. I can play it on a Pentium 1 with dial up just fine. What are you offering that the average personal doesn't already have?
LOL. How about games that aren't crap? But I guess you have to take what you get when you're working 20 hours a week at Best Buy.
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Truth hurts- doesn't it, basement virgin?
A decent ion engine, such as the one which powered Deep Space 1, required most of the spacecraft's 2.4 kW of power, and that was to get a 500kg craft around.
Ion drive thrust increases with power input. So, in order to move an asteroid about within our lifetimes you're probably going to need several football fields of panels, not to mention either a large number of actual engines, or a new breed of them. (And try getting all that to the asteroid in the first place).
The whole benefit of ion engines is that you require less fuel on your spacecraft due to higher isp. If you can figure out how to use materials on the asteroid for chemical rockets, do it.. if you don't, you're still going to be pushing that mass with an ion engine anyway.
Ching chang ching cheng ching chang ching chong fuckface.
I know what group you're in. Do you know what group you're in?
hear fucking hear
Fuck you, shithead
Fuck you, asshole.
I think it's working!
Hey fuckface, don't change the subject title.
I didn't know Big Oil recruited shills from ITT Tech. Shouldn't you be learning which end of a soldering iron to hold?
Banking your future on someone unknown "innovation" is as stupid as believing in God.
Knock that shit off right now.
No amount of weeping and gnashing-of-teeth will change the fact that you're just a bitter, nobody, have-not.
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You know, you're just asking to get modded down(unfairly) with a sig like that. On the rare occasions I've had points of my own, I've used them to penalize people who I disagreed with. I've even downmodded someone just for having any whiny signature similar to yours.
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Fuck you, shithead.
Fixed that for you, dorkus.
LOL @ fat nerds with goatees.
0wned!
Hear, hear!
Fuck linux.
Go read a book or smoke a joint.
Jesus.
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You lose :)
Dude, those things are great! I can fit like 2000 songs on mine, and everything's categorized to my liking. I have one of the newer photo ones, with a sweet 220x176-pixel LCD display. It can receive photos from my digital camera, or I can hook it up to my TV(!) and make slideshows. Although all I have right now are a bunch of pictures of my dog. LOL.
Did you buy one of those sleeves for yours? I heard they scratched easily so I bought a blue one for mine.
LOL. How about games that aren't crap? But I guess you have to take what you get when you're working 20 hours a week at Best Buy.
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Don't change the subject title.