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does this image editing yeild similar results to this image?

if it is, it's your usual silliness.

This seems to be a major breakthrough in fusion.  Imagine fusion NTR.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only/biggest problem in fusion right now (and for the last 50 years or so) has been containment, right?

Thanks about the tamplate, it seemed like a good way to follow the (unofficial) "not another bland wikipedia ripoff" slogan.

On the topic of templates, I  think there should definitely be a CERTIFIED BY AN EXPERT template.  It would be put on pages by an expert in a subject, to say that everything on that page is correct. 

And Maybe as an addition to the front page, maybe a picture w/the unofficial slogan on it (for decoration)

TTP doesn't have thermite as a fuel, it is used to heat the fuel (usually Hydrogen, I suppose) as opposed to a nuclear reactor.  So I guess you could say that it's nuclear thermal, only without the nuclear.

Three Ideas I would like to ask about.  They are on:
1-http://newmars.com/wiki/index.php/Therm … propulsion
2-http://newmars.com/wiki/index.php/NIXRS
3-http://newmars.com/wiki/index.php/Weitian_Calendar

What do you think?

BTW, I made my own template :mrgreen:
Am I allowed to do that?

Nevermind, made one myself.  See it on the NIXRS article,  and on the Weitian Calendar article.

Oh, the sand particle hits with exactly the same amount of force.  Assuming it weighs 1/10th of a gram, at 250 kph, that is (for each sand grain) like getting hit w/ a 1 kg weight moving at.-025kph)

As for the martian vs marsian issue, if it is an issue, I would vote neither, and say Marsan.  If it's an issue at all.  For metric vs imperial, maybe metric is preferred, but imperial is second best?

Hi, welcome to new mars.  This is also addressed, although for people, at http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5603  But this is a different topic.  One aim for rovers should be  Somewhere in the Hellas Basin.  it definitely has something interesting there.

For the time system, I would of course feel greatly honored if you used the Weitian calendar (www.newmars.com/wiki/indec.php/Weitian_calendar).  That would, of course, be because I made it up

About finding earth, A computer would of course be best, just a simple desktop one. 
Lacking that, the earth is always within X degrees of the sun, so from day A to day B you could pray to the slightly 'west' of the sun, and from day B to day C, you could prey slightly to the 'east' of the sun. 

Might not be a good idea to prey towards the sun at all, though, looking at it can damage your eyes 8)

Sorry terraformer, it had to be said.  Now, my favorite is suborbital craft to smaller space elevator.  It would orbit the earth in about a 4 hour orbit, and begin at ~ 2-3 km above the karman line.  (102-103 km above earth's surface)

This cable would be no more than a couple hundred of km,  and steel, or at worst carbon fiber, would suffice (note- household carbon fiber, not CNT's or super advanced materials.)  Minimal fuel would be needed, it would travel at its lowest point, ~ Mach 6 or 6.5. 

Of course, cnt's would lighten the load.

This means away w/ making thousands of km of cnt's.  Away with small weight quotas (smaller weight would of course be better, but bigger isn't deadly.)  Away w/ power isssues (See flywheels at http://www.liftport.com/component/optio … opic,793.0, they look good for this kind of thing)  And radiation damage ( think that even the top of the cable will be below the radiation belts.

What do you think?

Not to mention that fusing Hydrogen (protium) and Deuterium (Hydrogen 2) yeilds Helium 3

which, by the way, would get us right back to the off topic state of this topic (using Helium 3 in fusion)

What about H-D Fusion?  It doesn't seem to have been researched much and there are no neutrons let off.  I don't know if that's good or bad.  But Surely H-1 and H-2 would be so much cheaper to get?  About that tritium storage issue, there is a magical compount that can store 2 tritiums per molecule.  It only contaits tritium and a very common element.  It can be stored in a closed aluminum can with no losses.  Some call it dihydrogen monoxide.  I call it water.