Sci Fi Science- Building a Starship

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Michio Kaku presents his design for a starship that will help him to travel through space. Will his design have the ability to travel where no man has gone before?

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[GHOSTTOYS]

ok ... asteroid belt .. every one that tlk about travelling to space talk about crossing the belt but why ....i mean you are in space loll why run into asteroid when you can go around ....

[Dragonsecho3]

@whyamisogood1 Or an orbital launching station. Fuel and launch it there, and risk nothing on Earth

[unknowna2]

if you have a soler sale that is milse big you need a very big and power ful forse field. 

[Creaform003]

uuhhhh? force field? what?!? we dont have those yet.

[GHOSTTOYS]

@AVClarke nthing to say against a shield ... a shield is grately needed for sure but i am talking trajectory here not tiny particle .. i mean why planing a travel cours trough something !!?? go around and if the ship travel at that speed going aroun stuff should not be a problem

[AVClarke]

@GHOSTTOYS There are tiny bits of cosmic debris zipping around in deep space flying at thousands of miles per-second. Much of it is the size a pin-head, and would be undetectable by radar, and at the velocity it's going could cause major damage to the ship. Hence it must have a force shield around it at all times. Plus, force shielding would protect crew from various types of powerful cosmic radiation they would encounter in deep space.

[mrbigbat01]

@halfamused, I know where and how thebshipp will be built. and I can tell you all its considerably reched out further than the short sightedness of critical fundementals. warp speed is a diff calc of understanding of movement and matter. N01, ENGAGE.

[teo1000t]

1st starship is supposed to be build in 2110! However maybe 30-40 years sooner

[WiLdHaCk3r1]

why not just build a earth-spaceship that is simular to earth that has the atmosphere to protect from uv and asteroid and stay healthy on the spinning earth's gravity?

seems impossible, but i'd say it's better idea than this video's

[MrFreesearcher]

Well that looks a bit like a star drive with necells. Wait for grav generators, then add a main hull - its the Enterprise.

[storeguy333]

hey what if we find other life and there we smarter then us and they are not friendly and attack this ship ?

[sukhoi35a]

@halfamused antimatter is produced by the tons around the north poles and south poles of the sun stars and black holes. no particle accelerator is efficient enough to produce that much here on earth