Engineers want to build a REAL USS Enterprise in space!

[cytg111]

naw .. current efforts are right on track, we need smarter cheaper faster ways of getting stuff into orbit ... achieve this and the pace on everything else will pick up.

 

[CZroe]

Which is exactly why he was asking how long it would take to reach those distances..
May want to read a little more carefully next time.

Look I realize the internet is new to you and all but please try to keep up. Clearly I put distances on there since the question was time. In both cases those are rhetorical questions put there to make a point and not to attract someone like you who is brand new to the internet and confused as to what is going on here.

Which I edited in immediately after posting, before you two responded.

 

[randomrogue]

Which I edited in immediately after posting, before you two responded.

All good

 

[CZroe]

All good

I was going to add something about anything orbiting beyond 100AU was likely a comet which would not be worth traveling to vs. waiting for it to come to us, but I had already made a few too many edits. I do remember a cartoon when I was younger where a character described himself as being born "many thousands of light years before" another. Edit: Savage Dragon cartoon on USA.

My confusion was that you were listing the time to traverse each distance and then asking if we actually expected each to be done with an ion engine.

 

[Hacp]

Are you referring to Petroleum? Fossil Fuels? On the Moon?

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMCSUUHJCF_index_0.html

Titan's Surface Organics Surpass oil reserves on the Earth.

 

[randomrogue]

Anything worth travelling to in our solar system is within a few dozen AU. The Kuiper belt is at 30-50 AU. I was throwing out the largest possible border for the solar system which is the Oort Cloud. Either way nobody is going to send out a manned space ship using Ion engines to something that far out. Even with faster engines you would only go inspect a rock the size of a Volkswagen at 100 AU if you were on your way to something outside the system.

I think the overall point I'm trying to make is that an Ion engine is slow and the distances are great. We can explore things beyond Mars with probes far better than we can do it with a slow ass space ship. The point of building a slow space ship now is to learn how to build a faster and better one tomorrow. That I am all for.

 

[randomrogue]

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMCSUUHJCF_index_0.html

Titan's Surface Organics Surpass oil reserves on the Earth.

Very cool. That's not the moon though. I think we'll find very interesting things on places like Titan and Europa but the moon I'm not that optimistic about.

 

[Fritzo]

Are you referring to Petroleum? Fossil Fuels? On the Moon?

SHHH!!!! It's a secret.

 

[Matthiasa]

Which I edited in immediately after posting, before you two responded.

Check my post time and your edit time.
Again with that reading part.

/bored

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I think we first need to actually have a space program to do this.

 

[CZroe]

Check my post time and your edit time.
Again with that reading part.

/bored

It only shows the LAST edit time, genius. I made SEVERAL rapid-fire edits but I made THAT ONE right away. I thought I didn't have to explain this again because it was WRITTEN but it seems that someone else is having a problem comprehending here as well.

 

[AMDZen]

BTE Dan for President!

 

[SunnyD]

Of course, like all spaceships today, the big "if" for such an effort would be getting Congress to provide NASA the funding to do a huge 20-year project. But BTE Dan has that all worked out, and between tax increases and spreading out budget cuts to areas like defense, health and human services, housing and urban development, education and energy, the cuts to areas of discretionary spending are not large, and the tax increases could be small.

Yeah, I'm sure THAT will ever happen.

 

[Matthiasa]

To stay on topic though this plan is obviously complete unfeasible.

It only shows the LAST edit time, genius. I made SEVERAL rapid-fire edits but I made THAT ONE right away. I thought I didn't have to explain this again because it was WRITTEN but it seems that someone else is having a problem comprehending here as well.

Nothing on it was edited when I loaded the page the first time.
Are you so sure said edits were actually all that rapid?

Maybe I should have left the quote of the post in...

/bored

 

[CZroe]

To stay on topic though this plan is obviously complete unfeasible.



Nothing on it was edited when I loaded the page the first time.
Are you so sure said edits were actually all that rapid?

Maybe I should have left the quote of the post in...

/bored

I understand that you loaded it before the edit, read it, and then replied, but it was still edited almost instant exactly as I described. I immediately edited "I see you were asking.", submitted, and then began expanding on it, submitting almost each sentence separately until I finally refreshed the page and saw that it already had replies. I still had more to add, so I made a new post and referenced the edits.

This isn't my first rodeo.

 

[Matthiasa]

I know but I'm bored so yeah.
And ATOT has been so slow lately... even more than usual.