Science. Freaking awesome science.
This is well awesome:
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'Impossible' Space Engine May Actually Work, NASA Test Suggests If this engine pans out we could be gappin' it around the galaxy in no time. Although still could be nothing, can't be sure till there's a working prototype. |
I thought God made the water.
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I can see why you might think that.
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Um, hasn't this been accepted for some time?
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accepted maybe.
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It's not exactly rocket surgery though, is it? Water is mostly oxygen. Oxygen is a heavy atom produced by old massive stars, of which the sun is not one being composed almost entirely of hydrogen. Therefore the water in the solar system was here before the sun formed.
Jesus, a schoolkid could tell you that. |
yes they could.but i dont trust received knowledge as much as you._b
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not that i didn't receive this.
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Again, having to spend a good part of my week teasing the technical elements out of documents and communications my capacity for reading comprehension can get a little burnt out, so perhaps I've gotten something backwards in reading the article. However my read suggests that some portion of water did in fact exist or was formed (the molecule rather than the elements) in the solar system at the point the sun formed. This whole business of the formation of elements seems irrelevant. The reason this is relevant (water existing/forming in the solar system at the point of it emerging as a system vs water arriving from interstellar space at a later point) is that water existing in our solar system is likely common amongst similar systems rather than novel meaning if we were to happen to have a space ship that could accelerate through space without the need of carrying it's own accelerant we've got a good shot of coming into contact with other life in our region of space. |
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
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Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy
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Weren't they saying that a decade ago?
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Lockheed Martin weren't, no. It will be very interesting to see what they've come up with.
You'd be right to be skeptical with anything short of a working prototype however. |
A decade is definitely sooner than the previously accepted projection of 2050!
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is "could" really a projection.
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who gives a shit but fusion based energy would be awesome to see in my lifetime :)
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Controlled fusion is the only hope for our continued survival, imho.
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Is it really surviving if you can't get an iphone, though. |
^^ Lightspeed forgot to logout of his smurf account ;)
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These cold fusion solutions aren't producing much energy. I'm more interested in the big projects that are basically trying to reproduce the sun, here on earth. Once we get a few of those cranking our power worries disappear and all sorts of cool shit can happen.
Assuming we aren't raped by the power companies. So maybe not so much :/ |
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http://aviationweek.com/technology/s...eactor-details |
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Lockheed nerd w/ Fusion bom.... er, reactor |
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Richard Feynman explains it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8 |
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This new thing sounds good then, not needing a tokamak. _b |
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It is after all an excellent question.
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We're an energy-voracious wasteful toxic organism. We, Western industrialised society, have basically blown our birthright of knowledge and technology and cheap energy on luxury wars, and we're now getting to the point where if that knowledge and tech and energy doesn't get us off-planet, we're fucked. If we don't make a leap to the next energy sources (fusion, nextgen solar, whatever) we will run out of our current energy sources (petrol, gas, fission) and then go back to the old ones (coal, wood, whale oil, etc). We'll be stuck, dying, and taking the ecosphere down with us. Developing fusion power is something that only a wealthy energy-rich scientific society can do. It takes the energy resources of fossil fuels to GET to nextgen tech. If we fuck it up, the next society that rises won't have those resources. |
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all's needed is a disease or two to accelerate the downward spiral |
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Evaluating NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive
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Badass name for the concept craft too, Warpstar-1
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