VASIMR- New and faster propulsion system for space!

Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. With this technology they're not talking about years anymore. They're talking about days to reach planets in our solarsystem. It is said to launch in 2011.

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Science & Technology

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• rocket
• ufo
• space
• universe
• vasimr
• propulsion
• future
• nasa

[acce64]

While this technology is a huge improvement in comaprison to the obsolete rocket propulsion system they're using today, I'm still waiting for a lightspeed breakthrough. I mean literally. We've broken the sound barrier and before they didn't think it'd be possible. Like today they think approaching the speed of light would be impossible. We just have to wait and see. I believe those lightning fast ufos hold the key, whether they're terrestrial or extraterrestrial it doesn't matter.

[siogyumolcs]

this video is like a nasty porn

[tiansivive]

@brabanthallen that's not quite right... They aren't sure if their results are correct, in fact, they think that it's more likely they made a mistake. Most people are skeptical about it because back in 87, light from a supernova hit earth and along with that light there were neutrinos. If they really were faster, they'd have reached Earth ages ago.

However, there's the possibility that the results are right and there's some other unknown factor that made the neutrinos go faster

[MrMrUSMC]

I just got a huge smile on my face. Now we shall be mining the asteroid belts and visiting distant planets if this is put into effect for our spacecraft.

[brabanthallen]

Recently, the LHC at CERN showed that light speed is no longer the universal speed limit, as Einstein believed. The data has shown that neutrinos can travel FASTER than light speed. Einstein was wrong. It has also been demonstrated that the laws of physics which govern our area of the universe are not uniform everywhere in the universe. Don't ever presume that lightspeed propulsion cannot be achieved. There's a good chance that one day you'd be proven wrong.

[FredPilcher]

Why does that woman speak to us as if we're 4 years old?

[irishbreakfast]

light speed can only be achieved by light.period.give or take a hundredth of a second,thats the speed limit.sorry guys. light can be slowed,but not accelerated.and thats only with strong gravity slightly curving it.and not by much,either. a simple magnetic pulse generator system embedded in the epidermal layer of the craft will help with friction and small to medium impacts,and will assist in acceleration but only to a limit.the structural integrity of the craft needs to be able to take that!

[dvh065]

What about thrust and speed?

[johnshepherd2011]

such an awesome propulsion system!

[Zantaer]

@zadeh79 I don't know, I was just explaining why it's impossible to travel light speed.

[zadeh79]

@Zantaer Is that frictional source what limits a VSIMR crafts speed?