nyone interested in Daedalus, check out Project Icarus! Project Icarus is essentially a revisit to Daedalus, and is happening right now! "Project Icarus - Flying closer to another star"
How would such a spacecraft, traveling 16% the speed of light, be able to to survive a direct collision from rocks and ice clusters on it's way to the star?
@MisterHeizenberg I would probably be programmed to avoid obstacles in the way, but at 16% the speed of light any collision would be catastrophic for sure. You are going almost 30,000 miles per second.
Excellent animation. Just a minor nit-pick, if you will permit it: by the time of second-stage separation, the first stage propellant tanks would have gone - the original specs called for them to be jettisoned two at a time, on opposite sides, as they were emptied.
One day. Fantastic stuff. Anyway with the Shuttle in the bin, at last, we can start doing some real space flight. A robotic probe within the next 200 hundred years?
You can't make a spacecraft that can go faster than the speed of light no matter how efficient its drive is. That would violate Causality and Relativity. Besides, for being "old fashioned," this and Project Orion are the only two designs possible with the technology we have that can travel at relativistic speeds.
@Atymeson It the same guy as MrOrionII1999 who replied in support of you, and I sent you a PM on a concept that I have been designing dubbed "Project Orion II". I was supporting what you said in response to 2packisrockin's FTL straw man fallacy. I have two videos on realistic starship models that I made out of Sculpey. I PMed you with a video about Project Orion II.
i have to say, for NASA this isn't very high tech or efficient for a rate of that is high enough to preserve fuel and go past the speed of light while doing so.
@2pacisrockin a) This isn't NASA. b) You cannot create a spacecraft that can go faster than light (based on what we know now), unless there is a huge leap in the study of Warp Drive or an actual Worm Hole is discovered, then replicated artificially. The Daedalus is an extremely advanced design, some of the technologies that went into it aren't even invented yet.
nyone interested in Daedalus, check out Project Icarus! Project Icarus is essentially a revisit to Daedalus, and is happening right now! "Project Icarus - Flying closer to another star"
krazykhrisya 2 months ago
@krazykhrisya Anyone**
krazykhrisya 2 months ago
How would such a spacecraft, traveling 16% the speed of light, be able to to survive a direct collision from rocks and ice clusters on it's way to the star?
MisterHeizenberg 2 months ago
@MisterHeizenberg I would probably be programmed to avoid obstacles in the way, but at 16% the speed of light any collision would be catastrophic for sure. You are going almost 30,000 miles per second.
shkotay 1 month ago
Excellent animation. Just a minor nit-pick, if you will permit it: by the time of second-stage separation, the first stage propellant tanks would have gone - the original specs called for them to be jettisoned two at a time, on opposite sides, as they were emptied.
MarsFKA 3 months ago
One day. Fantastic stuff. Anyway with the Shuttle in the bin, at last, we can start doing some real space flight. A robotic probe within the next 200 hundred years?
jushayward 8 months ago
@MrOrionII1999
It won't exceed c? That's a relief.
twk373 1 year ago
You can't make a spacecraft that can go faster than the speed of light no matter how efficient its drive is. That would violate Causality and Relativity. Besides, for being "old fashioned," this and Project Orion are the only two designs possible with the technology we have that can travel at relativistic speeds.
Atymeson 1 year ago
@Atymeson It the same guy as MrOrionII1999 who replied in support of you, and I sent you a PM on a concept that I have been designing dubbed "Project Orion II". I was supporting what you said in response to 2packisrockin's FTL straw man fallacy. I have two videos on realistic starship models that I made out of Sculpey. I PMed you with a video about Project Orion II.
OrionIICosmos1999 4 weeks ago
i have to say, for NASA this isn't very high tech or efficient for a rate of that is high enough to preserve fuel and go past the speed of light while doing so.
2pacisrockin 1 year ago
@2pacisrockin I think FTL speed is acheived in a way we don't even remotely know about yet.
Grant691 6 months ago
@2pacisrockin a) This isn't NASA. b) You cannot create a spacecraft that can go faster than light (based on what we know now), unless there is a huge leap in the study of Warp Drive or an actual Worm Hole is discovered, then replicated artificially. The Daedalus is an extremely advanced design, some of the technologies that went into it aren't even invented yet.
krazykhrisya 2 months ago