Conceptual Mars mission using 3 VASIMR engines

LOL are you retarded? Nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors are two different things you idiot!!!! A nuclear reactor is not a weapon!!!!! AND GUESS WHAT!!!! Nuclear reactors have already been used in space!!!!!

First of all calm the fuck down and stop using so many exclamation points!1!!!1!!111111!!!!! Idiot.

Second of all, read my fucking replies to other people. NOT THE WAY YOU THINK. They did not use nuclear reactors in space the way this device would require.

Everything is a weapon.

Well yes, everything does have the potential to kill. But it only becomes a weapon when humans deem it so.

The theory of warp drive at first seems credible but then it hits major flaws. Probably impossible. To live for long periods of time on a ship we would need inertial dampers, which we don't have to my knowledge. And power source is still a big problem, to which anti matter is the most likely key.

The universe poses us with a great test of ones desire to explore. You can explore the universe with your life time thanks to time dilation but it would be a one way ticket. If you choose to return the sun and its planets may cease to exist.

But it is nothing we havnt faced before. People came to Australia from england leaving everything behind.

three months? I could do that easy. There has been so many examples of people in close proximity for extended periods of time. Do we even have to ask the question?

Hudrends of years ago douzens of men spent best part of two years sailing around the world. Some people in orbit has spent longer than three months.

Not to mention all the ground based duration tests. How many more psychological tests do we need? LETS GO !!!!!

They could save a ton of weight on the reactors, booms, and solar panels if they used three polywell fusion reactors instead.

Hibernation? You'll end up with a bed ridden invalid even if you could revive them.  Bones and muscles deteriorate without regular exercise, especially in 0 g.

Vasimir is overrated. It only has the really good specific impule that they advertise if you give it a ton of power. The equipment used to generate this power (solar panels, nuclear reactors) will weigh a ton and basically cancel out the better efficiency that they provide.

People will always say that you could go to mars in 39 days using vasimir, but to do that you need a 200MW nuclear reactor, which would probably weigh more than the spacecraft itself.