/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16143391
Link to the article about NASA's new ion thruster getting sent to the moon next year.
https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/

I'll admit I need to brush up on electric propulsion but from what i've read so far it seems the ion engines can take years to burn through the fuel due to the hyper efficent nature of the engine. I might actually do some math and see how NASA's new engine fits in with the sky hook but like I said I want to live endless mass off Earth so I need A LOT OF THRUST to counteract this. Doubtful even the new ion thrusters can do it alone but there is no need for them to work alone. But even if we say the ion engines need refueled with gas once a year we just send new gas up in a space plane or even an old stinky rocket. It's trivial to refuel the sky hook yearly from Earth. It looks like ion thrusters would be viable and would be easy to refuel. So there the one tiny crack you found is filled already.

So here we are, 100+ posts later, lots of limp dicks breathing hard and throwing around insults but not a single valid point of rebuttal. Now ask yourself why you hate this idea so much? Because you didn't think of it first? Because the TV machine didn't instruct you to like it? It works, you can't deny it, and it's the only solution to the issue.

I'm going to bed, but remember faggots. I'm literally always lurking in this fucking sub and you avoid my wrath because I will it and nothing more. Cower in fear plebs, your cock rockets won't save you.