PLASMA ROCKET BREAKTHROUGH!

[boraboy4ever]

How do you stop? LOL

[xXAmandaluvsFOBXx]

WHO GIVES A FUCK?????????????

[serpentphoenix]

This is a great propulsion system, but it has a terrible flaw... The nuclear reactors required for this Engine simply does not exist. Youre asking for something like with the strength of steel with the weight of styrofoam..

[VanessaCharland]

MARS IN 39 DAYS!!!!! AWW!!!!! I'll be the coffee runner, just take me up!

[paenitet7nullum]

I know someone who is related to the new owner of nautel!!

[TheNoogymonster]

Thank you god. THANK YOU GOD!

[thebadguy2k6]

CBCnews......wow! These guys are total idiots! Vasmir is not designed for launching vehicles from the ground. It's not going to replace the "gas guzzlin" rockets that we currently use. P.S. the shuttle doesn't use gas you fucking idiot!

[Zyphyr104]

@thebadguy2k6 by gas he may actually mean gas like hydrogen gas which is used in the space shuttle

[sal7t5]

was cool untill that guy explained to us how a rocket works..

the average CBC viewer must be really uneducated

[CreativeShot]

does anyone know how you would slow down once you have reached such high speeds?

[LightYagame100000]

@CreativeShot turn off the engines ?

[CreativeShot]

@LightYagame100000 I meant while in space! Where there in no air resistance.

[Xmus44]

@CreativeShot Same way you got them, you're just turn them around and decreases you speed! its as simple as that 8)

[pieter1990]

@CreativeShot i think they will turn of the engines and put little plasma rockets on the other side to slow down, but they will probably have some better ways to stop it where normal people dont think about :P

[RogueAutomotive]

So, how fast could it cook my Chicken?

..just kidding, I fuc#'n love it!

[mafia1911]

it wouldnt be so simple

for example if you boost up the speed to mars so much to get ETA (estimated time of arrival) to 39 days, you will be so fast that you need to get a few milions of kilometers of retro engine burning to slow down in adequate speed for catching mars orbit and descent in normal speed

whole lotta engine burning there if you ask me

but anyway glad to hear that science fiction is gonna be real, i hope that we colonize and maybe meet other races in next 50-60 years

[NANOFORGE]

@mafia1911 Thats why I think the Bussard Ramjet idea would be the best form of space travel in our life time until we have M/AM fusion a reality if it is even possible. The Ramjet basicly schoops up Hydrogen atoms from space and fuses them to create power and thrust, Scientists claim it could possibly reach speeds up to 33% of c. Until then we need to perfect Fusion.

[mafia1911]

@NANOFORGE

but VASIMR technology could be a real breaktroughwich could spread us arround space, building space stations in far distance, faster colonizing planets and maybe VASIMR involves into something bigger if combined with fision reactors and nuclear power and anti-gravity systems so that wee dont need to scramble too much just to escape our orbit

but NASA is very dumb and corrupted, we could have colonies on moon and mars by now and also something like VASIMR tech, whats wrong with them

[NANOFORGE]

@mafia1911 VASIMR is currently being worked on as we speak, we will see the launch of this kind of ship within he next few years. I Personally think the moon should be used as a giant solar panel since it has no magnetosphere and light from the sun is guaranteed to occur there. Mars is alittle bit to far away for us at the moment but I can see us building a research station up there this decade. VASIMR is the next step in stellar propulsion until Nuclear Fusion rockets are perfected.

[mafia1911]

@NANOFORGE

and also moon will be good spaceport for VASIMR ships, because of its extra low gravity and barely any atmosphere it would be easy to launch ships without using too much trust, also orbital escape will be piece of cake

kennedy space center will be used only as a launch site for earth satelites and those little things

also im looking forward in next 20 years that we start research center on jupiter moon TITAN because it has outstanding atmosphere and alot of resources to use

[NANOFORGE]

@mafia1911 Yeah once Vasimr is tested on the ISS in 2013 and proven a success we can see plasma rockets and shuttles heading back and forth from the moon within this decade, we would beable to travel to the moon in our life time. Vasimr could get to the moon in about 3 hours, thats nothing really, we could build a port on the moon within 3 years. Within the next 20 year Mars woudl be our next destination as would jupiter and I could see moving to saturn and it's moon in the next 50 years.

[mafia1911]

@mafia1911

sergei korolov & verner von braun made first space breaktrough in late 50s and 60s, now its gonna be second breaktrough within next 40-50 years to expand our living and way of thinking in cosmic/intergalactic way

but why we didnt already colonized the moon if we were there 40 years ago -.-

[alfiesgirluk]

Woo hoo won't be long until they invent warp drive

[baillou2]

Normally I only say flippant things about Canada (for fun), but I must say here, "GO CANADA!!".

[klp4d]

Not to rattle a few hairs but this concept has actually been in the US space program archives since the late 70's, yes the late 70's, with concepts like this we will have the capabilitiy of interstellar space travel in the short term, main problem was due to the problem of curruption since the apollo program the congress decided the us will not take this level of space travel alone thus it was put on hold ..

I found out about this in the early 90's, what a shame, what a shame ..

[Vengeant1]

This tech is still wasteful. The real deal is an engine designed to run on the total annihilation of matter using antimatter. You want real power with no waste ratio. That will be the true interstellar form of transportation. CERN has learned how to capture antimatter. The trick is to know how to store it. When they figure that out we will truely have an engine worthy of interplanetary travel.

[ThePatrickfeeney]

@Vengeant1 your right and when we do we cant use that kind of energy and hook it up to a rocket but a field generator which turns a ship into a tacyon a particle that cannot go under the speed of light yet go infinitely faster i want my warp drive:)

[Vengeant1]

@ThePatrickfeeney I like the way you think.

[NANOFORGE]

@Vengeant1 I think fusing matter and anti-matter would be an impossbility to achieve, fusing even 1.5 kilos of the two would result in a 64 Megaton explosion, there is no known material and we don't anything that would contain that amount of power. We are talking over 1.4 % of the suns power output per second here. M/AM fusion is a fictonal fantasy, in reality space rocket engines would use Nuclear Fusion. Hydrogen is the most powerful and abundant element, using it makes sense.

[Vengeant1]

@NANOFORGE "we don't anything that would contain that amount of power. " Try a black hole. And there is no reason why you have to fuse so much at one time. You can use a tickle method.

[NANOFORGE]

@Vengeant1 Black holes would crush and absorb the A/AM reaction. Plus it is impossible to create blackholes without current technology. To create a blackhole an object 3 tmes the size of our sun needs to collapse under it's own gravity. I don;t like the thought of messing with the stability of our universe expecially if we don't have a clue what we are doing. We cannot make blackholes either. A/AM reaction is a fictional fantasy like I said.

[NANOFORGE]

@Vengeant1 Matter and Antimatter fusion would be excelent for weaponry but to be used as fuel?. It is not stable enough nor is it easy to find. The smallest amounts of the two will still result in kiloton level explosions. hydrogen is the best rocket fuel and allways will be, Nuclear Fusion powered engines are the way forward, not space warping bullcrap and Matter and Antimatter fusion, Einstein says it's impossible aswell. Some things in nature should stay left alone.

[Vengeant1]

@NANOFORGE As many military and high level government officials have recently come forward and said, there are craft in our airspace that can and do reach near lightspeed. I have personally witnessed this. Whether or not this was man made or not, I have personally witnessed the capabilities. I don't give a crap about what "we" can do at this moment. I only care about what we can do in the near future. Radio waves can travel faster than light and I feel this should be our goal not 33%.

[NANOFORGE]

@Vengeant1 Radio Waves can move at the speed of light in a vaccum but their is a risk of the signals being scrambled by the solar winds from the sun out in space. I believe once the Sataltie New Horizons reachs Pluto it would take a radio signal traveling at the speed of light 4 hours to reach it. Pretty impressive. At the moment nothing can move faster than light, Light is the ultimate velocity until Hyperspace or Warp Drive is actually proven to be possible.

[sawu101]

@Vengeant1 the ufo you witnessed was a tr3b a united states black project designed for like stealth reconnasiance

[Vengeant1]

@sawu101 What I saw was a "foofighter" which looks completely differant than a tr3b. And "foofighters" have been recorded long before the tr3b was even conceived.

[sawu101]

@Vengeant1 foofighters are german engineered planes which shot down allied planes during ww2 they traveld and what looked like faster then light speed and can do incredible maneuvers which would kill most people

[Vengeant1]

@sawu101 First, orbs have never been reported to have attacked anything down during the war. What was reported war engine failure and power outages. Secondly there are many reports that the Japanese and German high command thought they were allied. Third, these things are still being documented today ala youtube. Last, wouldn't you think that someone smart enough to design a lightspeed craft would be able to solve gravity on the occupants. Not all orbs have occupants, some are drones.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@Vengeant1 Making enough amount to get us in to space would cost 16 trillion.

[cobieshark]

@AgrivatedKillah if only we dont have any debt in this world......

[proverb311031]

I have been waiting for this for this fr the last 5 years, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) will be going up to the space station pretty soon for testing! I hope we build orbital elevators to get our ship parts and other supplies into space and then we can build ship yards as well, finally we will be ready to explore space, I have been dreaming about this since i was five years old.

[gukonni]

This is what is wrong with humans? GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE. We're not perfect. We have lots of problems. In fact, if I sit here and dwell on them it'll easily bury me. But I won't do that because i've done it already too much in my life. Fact is, we're a lot of things. We're good and bad. We're high and low. We have to take what we can get. And as far as I'm concerned, this is a step in an awesome direction and one day me and you could be posting here from different planets.

[poplglop]

Plasma weaponry anyone?

Halo is so fake. By 2500 we'll be the ones with plasma guns!!! Woo!

Unfortanutely it takes a couple nuclear reactors to power that small thing lol!

[VarykGerai]

@poplglop when i look at how fast size of computers went down in size i think plazma weapons of a portable size shouldnt take longer than 100 years to develope

[imatelly]

see this is whats wrong with humans,ok he just made one as small as a gulf bag,ok thats awsome,but why not make it smaller then that the first time u make one,,also back when they broke the sound barrier,they keepet breaking there last speed time and time again,and useing the math should have broke speeds of this rocket by now,but everything went into militery patents,so we cant use it,and this stops us from making breakthroughs faster and faster,and we slow our species even more cause of it

[LcoolJfiveoh]

ladies and gents .......... to the stars we go

[EddieVedder13]

host couldn't sound more enthusiastic...

[danthemanzizzle]

mox news wtf lol

[danthemanzizzle]

plasma = gas so hot it emits visible light?

[robnox]

too bad its worthless without a nuclear reactor to power it!

[Aslapacrosstheface]

First human on Mars? I'm gonna guess it at 2018.

But this is awesome. This technology is just what we need.

[cr2nr]

GO COSTA RICA !

AD ASTRA . . .

[granddad2002]

Plasma is an effective way to propel spacecraft. Chemical combustion rockets are good for lifting payloads and people into orbit; but the trouble has been cost and utility.

Seems like the first 9 minutes of space travel is 99% of your program budget. A spaceship that could run in outer space with autonomous propulsion can change years into months for flight times. And cost and planning and returns would be far more manageable.

[TheMegitto]

Mark my words, within 10 years someone puts it on a gocart and then we're gonna have some fun on youtube !!!

[nubz66]

@TheMegitto

HAHAHA dude thats funny

[logitechstanton]

2013 now that's a low estimate!

[logitechstanton]

2013 now that's a low estimate!

[Rednael12]

lol, there are G's everywere, vacuum or not that doesn't matter

[trakkaton]

Mars to stay!

[Staldren]

Science: it works bitches!

[trakkaton]

@Staldren

Haha. Look at some other fields of science. Like the economy. And the Mars Mission is overdue for about 40 years now. Not that we don't have some serious other problems here on earth. Like that due to the economy, fucked up by the economists, which is one field of science.

[br8d1]

@uncsam34 Acceleration will cause g-force, retard. It would have been wise to suggest that my exaggeration of 10Gs was extremely high, but to suggest that I am an idiot is also calling Newton and idiot. I thought you were joking, but you seriously think that being in space erases G-force. You have embarrassed yourself.

[VarykGerai]

@br8d1 1 year of acceleration mode, problem solved ^^

[br8d1]

You are joking, right?

[MsPetipeti]

they to mention ad astra rocket is from costa

[br8d1]

39 days, at 10 Gs, right.

[ahamayoisac]

shame they don't know how to protect people from the radiation. Doesn't matter how good the rockets are, we still can't go places, can't go to moon, can't go to mars either.

[WhenTheJokerLaughs]

CANADA FUCKING OWNS!!

[ianxxscott]

Mark my words - The military will buy it to once again find a more efficient way to kill our fellow man

[SovietNinjah]

@ianxxscott Yea they'll turn a new advancement in technology into a weapon to kill =\

[danthemanzizzle]

@ianxxscott obvoiusly they will explore potential weapon capabilities, we dont live in a perfect world yet my friend. perhaps we never will.

[ianxxscott]

@danthemanzizzle someone has to stop fighting. an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind - ghandi. Who are our enemies anyway? The western world have the resources and have to build the weapons to keep them. No justification at all.

[danthemanzizzle]

@ianxxscott i can agree with that, the world doesnt need million man armies and 3 % Gdp military budgets, all that does is make wars that do happen more bloody, and nukes are the biggest joke of all, like if your living in Afghanistan and taliban somehow nuke the US, the US would nuke them back and you would die along with 50 thousand other people, nukes are totally unjustified device for "super mass murder" of "enemies", all im saying is that military r&d isnt going to get cut for quite a while

[LcoolJfiveoh]

@ianxxscott

AWSOMMMMMMMMMMMMME!!!!!!!!!!!

[SNUSNU4U]

@ianxxscott VASIMIR is unable to operate within the atmosphere of the earth and can only possibly be used while inside a vacuum. Liquid rocketry (combustion) is still required to carry the VASIMIR into space.

[creamyfilling102]

@ianxxscott well if we don't use it, some other country will...then we'll be screwed.

[raptorculiacan]

You're an idiot.

[fuunguus]

@ianxxscott I'm not sure they could kill anyone efficiently with that thing. But, essentially it's a ION thruster right? I think it could be used to fry electrical components, rendering lots of tanks and planes useless just by firing it at them. Anyways, that's the idea behind an ion weapon. It'd have to be very powerful though, but I'm sure with the military and all it's funding that's easy for them.

[Ebillington22]

@ianxxscott it requires a Vacuum to function

[SASNIGHTCRAWLER]

@ianxxscott This will only work in space, it needs a rocket to get the thruster unit in space. When in space all they use now are crappy oms burn type jets that are useless and orbital sling shots.This is the 1st space thruster with the ability to generate a good rate of thrust with minimum fuel used, it can even recycle the air used by the astronauts as fuel and if landing on mars, near to a water/ice source, fuel can be collected for the return journey if needed, or even collected from space

[moniker127]

Holy shit. I heard of vasimr a few years ago, but I didn't know it could cut down on travel times so much.

[CradLeRcker]

even with plasma rockets getting out of the solar system is still a major obstacle

[rickc1945]

This seems to be the best thing since sliced bread. Our government should get behind this and support it in any way they can. Keep in mind I didn't say take it over I mean support it. Good for Nautel, keep up the good work!

[Melpheos1er]

when i hear "plasma" my geekness wakes up

[Armigo91]

@Melpheos1er

Makes no sense that it should wake geekness. 95% of the universe consists of plasma. The sun for example (and most of the gasses in any galaxy) are plasma particles. Plasma is nothing more then a state of matter. You have air,liquid, solid and plasma, (people just dont know the 4th state of matter is plasma) since its no kind of matter that exists on earth by nature.

So everybody is confused by the concept alone, but its just a fact in science. This vid anounces that we can

[proverb311031]

@Armigo91 80% of Americans do not know where England is on a map, when I talk to my family members and friends I get conformation all the time that most people are clueless, if they do not have to learn things for work or for school they will not bother to expend any brain power to do so, being curious is not part of their makeup that is true about most of humanity, they have little to no vision and I guess that is why they love calling those of us how are curious nerds or geeks We are dreamers

[Armigo91]

finally artificially create plasma at a high enough lvl to make it benefitial on future spacecrafts.

When people made the first rockets as weapons in the 1700s they didnt got to space either. It took another 2 ages before that happened. As for plasma, we can already artifically recreate it, its the art of resizing the complexity and increase the sufficiency and velocity of the plasma to make it effective in space. That will take another few decades, but these are the future space propulsions.

[abortabraham]

Everyone should pay for plasma rockets! Tax everyone!!! This is free market evilness! Plasma rockets should be public goods for SCIENCE!!!! Free market is evil and for profiteers, government is better and would never use plasma rockets for harm because WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT! WE THE PEOPLE!!!1

[Swatsinger]

@abortabraham: Try not to talk so much.

[cheeseaura]

Too bad the elite will never let the populace off the planet alive.

[Hybrid5784]

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE

[ErichoTTA]

@Hybrid5784 Yeah, it really makes you appreciate science.

[Brezable]

Yaaaaaaaay for science

[WhatsAfterThisPlace]

If there was no wars or hatred and people were logical, there would be discoveries like this every hour.

[Corporations8MyBaby]

Sa'weeeet! Think we'll see one of these on the Bonneville salt flats? (eek)

[ragenut2112]

Google Catherine Austin-Fitts and the U.S. black budget

[BlackKingX]

Couldn't an Ion drive make the trip to Mars faster? Provided the ship didn't have to turn around mid trip to decelerate?

[Pvtjamesryan2]

"as hot as the surface of the sun"

5,778 Kelvin

I call bollox!!!

[Intervene]

AWESOME.

[Newfie4646]

NEAT-O

[ComancheChiefSD]

masons are planning their escape from Earth...

[scottcn1]

hahaha

[ubermenschification]

looooool

[WhatsAfterThisPlace]

ComancheChiefSD LOL dont even joke about that because an idiot out there might read that and think its true LOL honestly :)

[Principalian]

Why is a guy from "McMaster Centre for Medical Robots" the authority on this? Shouldn't it be someone from...I dunno..an organization involved in space flight? lol

As much as I would love this to be true (I work on the Orion program), this whole thing seems a little suspicious to me.

[ogapadoga]

warp drive initiated

[zocc116]

take care of the people on THIS planet first

[irdial]

@zocc116 What's stopping you?

[NwZ2]

lolololololol

what?

........cause we *can't* somehow get resources off of other planets to help fuel this one?

your thinking is extremely simplistic.

[2mac22]

well said!

[Principalian]

If you wait until everyone on Earth leads a good life you'll never explore space.

[jufu999]

39 days to Mars. Nice.

[Churchx77]

It'll still be 30 minutes for radio transmition to arrive though.

[scottcn1]

or a few minutes to get from NY to London. That's if its feasible or wise to strap a rocket on a passenger aircraft. I'm not too sure about that one.