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i suspect the gamma ray propulsion idea that I started in my last thread . . . as being what they have in mind to make for this revolutionary spacecraft.
http://www.stratfor.com/corporate/static_index.neo
that is the website of the group; my father gets news from a friend of his.
My father pointing out a paragraph from an independent intelligence organization paper that russia was working on a revolutionary spaceplane; it is round and will hold like sixteen hundred passengers; it will get into orbit as well; all I can tell you is that I read the paper; take it for what it is worth; the paper is usually just about politics and government stuff, but there is was stuck at the very bottom on the page.
I forgot what the intelligence outfits name was, but there is no reason for this group of people to post something like this . . .
how many people here have actually read Eric Drexler's "Engines of Creation?"
another reason to get the hell off this planet and live in a controlled environment.
I'll go as far as to say the recent stocks accellerations is due to nanotech stocks.
molecular manufacturing is here, although in a very primitive stage of development. But, its development is moving fast along with the development of other nanotech pathways; along with the increased pace of nanotech development, the expectation of the possible is changing faster and faster; i think this is why china doesn't give any clearcut idea of its future space program
I recently e-mailed some of those space elevator guys about the idea that nanotubes would be like asbestoes; i actually got a responce, and the responder said they've done research that shows they are smaller and don't act like asbestoes.
no wonder drexlerian nanotech is going to come . . . .
i heard this spacecraft has A.I. navigation controls in it; it is pretty sophisticated and looks to have a pretty reliable mission.
i don't know why some links are active and others don't get active . . . whatever
here's something else and a website I love . . .
anyways, here's some more along some of the technology mentioned in the article.
Zubrin loves to give historical parallels in his books; here's one.
Columbus went around all the big timers with his arguements for funding him and his explorations; none of them cared; so, what did he do? He went to some small competitor(I do believe it was the portuguese of Isabelle and Ferdinand) and they took the risk.
So, who is some small competitor that needs to take a risk? Well, there is probably a few of them; How about britain? Singapore? Canada? How about the scandinavian countries? Norway comes to mind. Australia! Madagascar! Japan . . . . India! There's a lot of possibilities.
i myself am scared; i think these terminator(and I like them more or less; but, don't take them so seriously; i can find holes in the story logic) movies are going to start putting up an anti-technology/knowledge movement. Not to mention all those Crighton movies; it's like the only sci-fi movies are technology scare movies.
i read it at yahoo a short while ago; some others argue the researchers could be overstating things a bit; they're not totally convinced that hydrogen wouldn't just get absorbed into the ground, and besides that, the technology can be developed to make the leaks less likelly. All in all, we'll find away around it.
Besides, we just might be out in space by then anyways.
just think, that billions of dollars for nanotech research passed by capital hill has only just started kicking in . . . imagine how much stuff we're going to have over the next decade . . . i think nasa and even the x-prize people are going to be constantly rethinking the possible.
I read that the cost to build the initial space elevator will be 40 billion; but, isn't that based on today's technology? I'm thinking the cost might not be that expensive ten to fifteen years from now on . . .
http://www.evworld.com/databases/showne … s060601-12
This is just one article; anyone can find many more.
I see marssociety people talked to congressmembers; was any of this mentioned?
tim purdue "So they can control it. What if the Chinese/Russians/whatever built one first? Then they'd own space. You get the idea."
Thanks for quoting me jerk off.