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MSimon wrote:In the mean time peace through superior firepower.

Not just spaceships, but airplanes, flying cars, etc, etc. and lawnmowers! FIFA and Adidas will probably find a way to create an ME-Ball for the 2022 World Cup :lol: :lol: ps: I guess most of you guys are americans and are not acquainted with the S.Africa World Cup ADIDAS´ Jaboulani(tm) ball contro...

Jim is on vacation till the Fall. I doubt there will be any news from any of the projects until October os so. Grrrr, waiting until fall = torture for somebody like me (yours truly is the personification of impatient). imagine if we lived in the middle ages. you would be lucky if you saw a SINGLE t...

GIThruster wrote: Mars at its farthest approach to the Earth in 5 days, the asteroids in 6, Jupiter in 7 and Saturn and it's pretty moon Titan in just 9 days. Those are travel times comparable to the golden age of steamships, and certainly cheap and easy enough to colonize our planetary system.

better than sex...

jimgagnon posted this today at NASA Spaceflight Forums Interesting article on how German researchers have shown how it is possible to create situations in the quantum world in which the effects of inertial and gravitational mass must be different. In fact, they show that these differences can be arb...

the website from the link in the first post seems to be offline... Works for me. Maybe your ISP has a faulty DNS table or something. "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /archives/2010/06/iter_meltdown.html on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying t...

the website from the link in the first post seems to be offline...

Polywell SSTO?? I have heard of Polywell powering a VASIMR, but not powering a SSTO (or anything else taking off from the planet). How exactly would a Polywell SSTO work? Any interesting links? Try this: http://www.askmar.com/Fusion_files/Inertial-Electrostatic-Fusion%20Propulsion.pdf thanks. This ...

Well, kcdodd - that's one thing that's always puzzled me about the left. They're very much supportive of the most repressive societies, with no condemnation of the misogyny or violent homophobia inherent in them. When there were videos smuggled out of Afghanistan of the Taliban killing women who da...

Polywell SSTO?? I have heard of Polywell powering a VASIMR, but not powering a SSTO (or anything else taking off from the planet). How exactly would a Polywell SSTO work? Any interesting links? One more reason to root for Polywell :) (haha, like if solving the world´s energy problems were already no...

But in Obama's america there will be nobody allowed to have the freedom and the drive to put people in space and no wealth to do it. Obama kills a bloated government program and promises funds to private industries seeking to put people in space. I'm not sure I understand you. He's killed more than...

There has been a lot of press on the VASMIR approach. There is nothing wrong with the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket drive, but the proposals so far have been unrealistic as to how to power them. Compact fission power sources have been proposed, but a close look throws some doubt th...

Genetic algorithms are quite common in optimization - they take a lot longer than gradient-based methods, but are less likely to get hung up on local minima rather than finding global ones. I don't know why they're making such a big deal of it. And no, you couldn't do this with Polywell. To do opti...

was this the first time such "natural selection" algorythms were used in simulations? If yes, could a similar algorythm be used for the Polywell, for example?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627616.600-darwinian-spacecraft-engine-to-last-twice-as-long.html SPACE agencies may one day have Charles Darwin to thank for the longevity of their spacecraft. The life expectancy of a popular type of ion engineMovie Camera has been almost doubled using softw...