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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 04:41 PM
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I stand corrected. Still, the possibility of going to Alpha Centauri and back in a year by being in an environment that's 10 degrees Celsius doesn't seem very likely to me. ;)
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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 02:58 PM
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Err... C as in the speed of light, not the Celsius temperature scale.
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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 10:10 AM
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The thing is, even if it's many years away, it's probably better than starting a mission in 20 years that involves putting the crew in suspended animation and will last many thousands of years. Say you can achieve 10C with some kind of warp drive in 200 years time. A trip to Alpha Centauri and back would take about a year or so.
Assuming, of course, that it actually works. And we're still a long way away from that. Plausible is not the same as feasible. Still, it would be pretty awesome, being able to reach the stars in a "normal" lifetime.
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Forum: General Talk
08-22-2015, 12:17 AM
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I don't know if this has been posted before, but there is a guy at NASA, called Harold White, who actually works on spacewarp propulsion. There are several Youtube vids about this. If it works, this should allow you to cover great distances (the equivalent for going faster than light) without actually being accelerated and decelerated. It's still a lot of theory and research though. But he did bring back the energy requirements so that the idea is at least plausible.
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