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Yes! Star Trek begins! 100 year program though.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/nasa-preps-100-year-spaceship-programme-to-boldly-go-where-none-ha
ve-gone-before/story-e6frfro0-1225941547507

>The project was kicked off recently with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA and hopes to utilise new propulsion ideas being explored by NASA.

>Star Trek fans, prepare to get excited - electric propulsion is here, according to Mr Worden.

>> No.1939251
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1939251

Will there be aliens?

>> No.1939256

>>1939251
not with 1.1 million in funding lol.
mabye they can develop a sort of fast sports car?

>> No.1939260

>$ 1,100,000
>100 year space program

cool story.

>> No.1939263

1 million dollars? what kind of trolling is this?

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>Despite his ambitious vision to push further out into the galaxy, Mr Worden said there was still plenty of work to do in our own backyard first.

>First stop, he said, was the moons of Mars, from where the planet itself can be explored using telerobotics.

It's almost eerily like the plans i've been proposing on /sci/.

Isn't there some guy that browses /sci/ that works for Robert Zubrin/NASA?

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>>1939251
Yes, but it will probably look like my image.

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>>1939256
Maybe you wanted to say "a cheap electric bus to the stars"?

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>>1939270
>>1939256

As if any nation can spontaneously create 10 trillion in funding for space ships. It will be cheaper in the long run though once we get away from megaton rocket fuel propulsion.

>> No.1939278

>$100K from NASA
Boy NASA has really taken a hit from the budget reductions hasn't it...

>> No.1939287

>>1939278
they just fired somebody to free up 100k

>> No.1939401

If I ever become a richfuck I'd write a will donating my wealth to NASA for space colonization use only.

>> No.1941039

>>1939401
> If I ever become a richfuck I'd write a will donating my wealth to NASA for space colonization use only.

You would only need to donate a dollar. With compound interest, it will have grown to trillions by the time that space colonisation is remotely viable.

Seriously, for us to plan space colonisation would be like the Romans planning the Apollo program.

>> No.1941047

Does this mean sex with hot alien babes?

>> No.1941053

>>1939401
Why do we even need to colonize space? It would just create a shitload more political problems.

"LOL EARTH SUX BOOOOOO COLONY NUMBER THREE SIXTY TWO RULEZ"

>> No.1941180

This whole thing sounds like an overly optimistic pipe dream

>> No.1941263

>Star Trek begins!

actually that's what you say if and when the project completes successfully. remember that time goes forwards and cause precedes effect in this universe.

>> No.1941289

>>1941180
For now, maybe. In a few hundred years? Who knows.

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>>1941053
You're kidding me, right?
1950: HURR AMERICA STRONG WE HAVE NUKES
1970: HURR AMERICA AND USSR STRONG WE HAVE NUKES
2010: SO basically we got China, France, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, the UK, Russia and the US with nukes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH