Planetside for real?

[Navaron]

Could be sooner than you think.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2684329.stm

[Lexington_Steele]

I raise a toast to more funding for NASA.

[Mopo]

Mars.... cooooooool. But by how much will it cut time? I dont think its safe or practical to be honest. We need to develop a NEW kind of power for space travel. Nukes this nukes that.... Less than a century ago nobody could even conceive nuclear power. Time is what we need.

[Lexington_Steele]

No, technology will save us. Space travel and colonization will alleviate problems such as diminishing recources and overpopulation. We need this stuff ASAP.

[Sputty]

We should do a Planetside IQ test and send all the idiots to the moon! Also, more funding for NASA would be nice

[Tobias]

we also have time travel, but we dont use it, big woopy.

[chaos1428]

I'm sorry, but am I the only one who thinks the concept of a Nuke powered space ship, a horrably BAD idea? I mean, could you imagine, if the Challenger had been a Nuke? sweet jebus!

Now, if they get that space station done, and only use the new engine from space, and space alone, THEN, its a wise thought.

But only if those reactors never see the inside of the planet's atmosphere.

[Revolution]

My parents worked for Nasa(Mechanics) for 10 years, and I was saying the idea for Nuclear power for space travel since I was young(Having parents in Nasa well use you're imagination where mine went)(Never really got a response from them from what I can remember)
Dunno I am being serious but I think I will call them up and ask them what they think about it. It could be back then in the late 80's-90's it was not realistic and dangerous such as the Challenger quote above, but who know what kind of tech the government has now.
If anyone cares me to post about what they say I will.

[chaos1428]

I am absolutely fascinated by space travel, and all that stuff. I, personally would like to hear what they have to say, Rev. Hell, I wouldnt mind having a few debates with ya

I've wanted to work for the space program all my life, but I'm just too damn lazy.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Tobias
we also have time travel, but we dont use it, big woopy.

It will be a long time before NASA's funding gets increased everyone just cuts it

[chaos1428]

Time Travel. Ya, there was some kind of experiment in the 50's or something. Don't know the specifics of it, but they used a Battleship(maybe a destroyer) and all of its crew as test subjects. Activated the machine, the ship dissapeared for like 4 minutes, came back, and most of the crew had become fused with the hull, some of them still alive. I guess it was scrapped, or maybe we just havent heard anything about it again. Saw it on Discovery, or something, when a few people who took part in it came forward.

[Hamma]

[chaos1428]

I'll see if I can't find some info on it for ya Hamma.

[Incompetent]

I think you are thinking of the philidelphia experiment, they used a destroyer and tried to make it invisible, or so some claim. I read somewhere that they think it came from drunk sailors bragging about how there ship could become effectively invisible because of the experimental equipment installed on it, leaving out the part about how it was only to magnetic mines.

[chaos1428]

No, I know about philly experiment (well, I know OF it, I should say ) But the one I'm thinking of was for time travel, maybe it was later than the 50's though. I'd have to do some more research on it. When I find something, I'll post it