/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2924786
But the interstellar hydrogen hitting the zone of contracted space in front of the ship will transfer heat to the normal space your ship sits in and heat it up until you turn into plasma.

And more importantly, knowing there is negative energy or exotic matter doesn't mean you can use them. We know gravity exists but we don't have artificial gravity, and probably never will.

Either we can wait around like faggots because we just need to have our socially progressive wank space opera which requires ftl. Or we can just become horrible inhuman bastards that travel around in slower than light vessels striping entire stellar systems of all resources, and know that we will be able to conquer this galaxy and perhaps the entire universe and live until the stars burn out.

I'm going to go with the strategy I know will work, thank you very much.

Nuclear pulse propulsion will give you the deltaV and takeoff power needed.

Humanity needs to set aside the weaklings that ask for peace and begin a new age of brutal imperialism among the stars powered by the splitting of the atom.

>>2345012
First space going civilization. Whether the there never where others or they never figured out MAD is a conjecture.

We could get out there today. We are empire waiting to be born, if the fucking wimps would ignore SALTII and the Outer Space Treaty and just use project orion.

Project Orion is superior.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071022133749rn_1/www.mfbb.net/nuclearrockets/nuclearrockets-about12.htm
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All the declassified documents.

It's impossible. Any interstellar hydrogen impacting the zone of altered space around the ship would heat up the interior of the bubble like a mother fucker.

Orion was here, Alcubierre drive is for soft scifi faggots.

First lets get this out of the way, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion can get us to the stars at a maximum velocity of 0.1C assuming that you have to decelerate again, if not you can reach 0.15C which will be important for latter. Also we will assume that there is no faster than light travel. Because that would open up another can of beans since humanity could convert an amount of mass equal to the observable universe into human flesh in 6,000 years if the 1994 population growth rate could be maintained. And it could be maintain if the superluminal travel would allow humans to access new resources fast enough.
So assuming that you could send out self replicating probes that would travel at an average velocity of 0.1C and that it would take each probe 100 years to make a 100 copies of itself each time that they entered a new stellar system, you could still visit every stellar in the Milky Way in under 1 million years. If theses probes carried humans or mechanized human descendants then our civilization could also spread as quickly.

>>2036433
>>2036435
What's kind of funny is apparently Kennedy was shown something like this by the air force and he totally pussed out on it, and thought the idea of awesome nuclear battleships was to destabilizing. I really would not have expected that from him, despite being a Democrat he tended to lean just right of center. He certainly opposed Nam because he thought it was a waste of money and that "containment" was more a hypotheses than anything, but he still berated draft dodging. I would have though he would like a xbox huge spaceship armed with nuclear howitzers.

Ah, I pine for what may have been have been and what could never be. Also for the good of all mankind too, I guess. Sort of, not really. What I'm is a what a planet devastating space dreadnought. Is that so wrong?

>>1975034
I think he'd be interested in Nuclear Space Battleships Fuck Yeah. And talking about newtonian physics by describing the complex interactions that occur when a bullet hits it's target would also get their attention.

People find war stories interesting because they have conflict. The if the popular perception of the scientist as cool and peacable were shattered they may be much more interested in science carries. Treat every thing as a conflict. We're crushing the weak biosphere and enslaving it, we're stealing the blood of the planet to fuel our machines, we're going to spread and rape every world we come across. Imperialism for the win, my friends.

Really the "billions of billions" type of argument never appealed to me. Then again my whole job is pretty much acquire more vespene gas, so maybe I'm a little biased.

>>1733671
So everybody is a bunch faggots then? Okay just wanted to confirm that. It'll happen eventually anyway, unless they make a langstrom loop instead. Which I think is possible with currently available materials but you're the engineer I'm just a geologist with a boner for space mining and imperialism.

pic:I want my space battleships propelled by nuclear bombs damn it!