/sci/ - Science & Math

[The Director !JnkVSenpC2 No.949314]

Good morning, and welcome to the 4chan space agency! Thanks to an enormous mistake, we've been given a huge amount of funding from the government originally intended to help starving orphans in far-off countries. Instead, we're going to put that money to good use.

So, what in space are we going to explore? Are we just sticking satellites up, or are we looking to the long-haul trips to Mars, Venus, Jupiter or even Alpha Centauri?

We'll also need to buy a spaceship or several too. And a launch site. Isn't misappropriation of funds *exciting*?

[Anonymous No.949337]

How about a missile silo for a base? They're dead cheap, only about $40,000.

[Anonymous No.949336]

>>949314
Can i have 700bil?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949341]

First of all we need a cheap way to get into space.

Start perfecting the design of the Sea Dragon (See: Wikipedia) and the Super Nexus (Fuck Greenpeace). Also make a commite (lolol) to see how feasible the Lofstrom Loop is. If it can be done, get the funding, start building.

Also fund a nanotech department, start working on Carbon Nanotubes to perfect the Space Elevator project.

[Anonymous No.949352]

I think we should use a railgun space ship set up, like the nazis had.

[Anonymous No.949362]

We need to put all our money in REAL physics and REAL science.

Only by using our money in useful reasearch we will be able to gain useful technology.

Fusion technology is PRIO #1. Without doubt.

Anyone not agreeing with me on this, deserves to get split vertically with a katana from the head trough the torso.

[Anonymous No.949366]

ITT: Loaded satire samefagged repeatedly.

[Anonymous No.949368]

Everything takes energy.

Fusion will solve all our energy problems.

[Anonymous No.949371]

>>949341
Hell's bells, that's a big rocket.

I'm putting my vote in for one of these, though. Don't you just love the Deltaglider?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949372]

>>949352

http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Nowicki/SPBI1SI.HTM

[Anonymous No.949374]

>>949366
failtroll fails, this is my second post in this thread.

[OP-is-a-negro !WHx1IiTVpY No.949381]

Magnets.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949407]

>>949371

Everyone loves the deltaglider, if only you could make it bigger... Oh wait, the X-33

[The Director !JnkVSenpC2 No.949424]

How about a Sea Dragon, with a Deltaglider on top?

[Anonymous No.949430]

>>949424
How the fuck much money do we have!?!?!?!

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949445]

>>949424

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949463]

Oh look the Dynasoar.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949472]

Another one.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949474]

And a picture of me playing Orbiter to break up the tension :3

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949482]

Bussard Ramjet

Alien felinoids, here I come.

[Anonymous No.949500]

>>949445

[Anonymous No.949504]

>>949337
I saw a nice-ass grain silo on craigslist for free, all you have to do is dismantle it and transport it

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949514]

Also we're gonna need some probes sent to the Heliopause, to get the interstellar weather report. And see how many brown dwarves are actually out there. Who knows, a ship might hit one.

[Anonymous No.949517]

>>949372
Well that answers that.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949525]

An intersting alternative to Vernier: A gyro ship

[The Director !JnkVSenpC2 No.949539]

>>949430

As much as we need, as long as we lie that it's going towards orphans. Sod the orphans, I want Bussard ramjets.

<------- The low-budget option.

[Anonymous No.949594]

Bump.

I think winged designs are sort of stupid, unless they're shuttles. Other than that, anything LEO or higher shouldn't have wings.
Also, lets annex the moon.

[Anonymous No.949621]

>>949407
X-33 was abandoned.

[Anonymous No.949625]

I say we buy the tallest mountain we can find on the equator and build a maglev launch rail up the side of it so we can save in fuel costs, maybe even be competitive commercially. Then we proceed to launch a massive network of free, uncensored internet satellites, a few kinetic kill weapons in case someone starts getting trigger happy, and as many hubble/webb clones as we can have built. In like 20 years I expect a deepfield view of 100% of the night sky, total worldwide freedom of information, and global peace enforced by the threat of orbital bombardment.

[Anonymous No.949629]

>>949621

>but Lockheed Martin has continued further testing, and has had successes as recently as 2009.[citation needed]

[The Director !JnkVSenpC2 No.949643]

>>949594
I tihnk we could do with a few shuttles at least. How about some retro-stylings?

[Anonymous No.949657]

>>949629
Like it said citation needed. Even if they continue to further research it, it will take a huge amount of time especially with the tests it has to go through and inspection from NASA to deem if it is flight ready. And finally governmental funds from the U.S. to whether or not support the project.

[Anonymous No.949821]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.949848]

You're all thinking too small scale - we need the Venture Star

[Anonymous No.949854]

>>949848
We are going to need a set of wheels to get to Pandora before we can build the Venture Star.

[Anonymous No.949869]

>>949848

Resident expert on the Venturestar here.

You need an Asimov Array to get that much antimatter, we can either wait 10 or 20 years for the self-replicating nanorobots to become avilable, or simply send slaves to the Moon!

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.949870]

>>949869

Forgot my tripcode-.

[Anonymous No.949895]

>>949848
even thats too small i want a massive ship larger than the solar system with space bent into a hull, powered by black holes and fueld by stars, its life support system will be entire planets orbiting a star in this we can confidently sail the cosmos

[Anonymous No.949926]

>>949870
i see what you did there

[Anonymous No.949937]

>>949926
i see you seeing what he did there

[Anonymous No.949963]

>>949937
someone should shoop a drumstick into his hand

[Anonymous No.949970]

>>949963
That would be tough. Perhaps a KFC bucket would be better, or a piece of watermelon.

[Anonymous No.950266]

>>949869
I'm confused - why do we need to send slaves to the moon to make antimatter?

[Anonymous No.950474]

>>950266
Its not going to mine itself.

[Anonymous No.950505]

>>949381
HAHA WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FROM
please tell me

[Anonymous No.951991]

Bump for justice.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.952021]

We should build something like this.

But instead of remass every tank carries space marines.

O CANADA

[Anonymous No.952063]

>>949625
This. also send billionaires into space for millions. Commercial spaceflight is ftw.

Also, annex the moon. Install a missile system

[Anonymous No.952477]

I do beleive we should probably get some spaceships to establish a perimeter around jupiter. Dont want any monoliths making my jupiter into the second sun for the europans...

[Anonymous No.952630]

>>949525
would someone be so kind as to explain?

[Anonymous No.952647]

>>949381
we can't launch a rocket on miracles

[Colonel Coffee Mug No.952727]

>>952630

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aq.html#TeroNiemi

[Anonymous No.954684]

Bump for justice II: The Revenge