DARPA issues call for notions on Starship-for-2111 plan Wild-hare Pentagon boffinry bureau DARPA continues to forge ahead with its radical plan to get the first manned interstellar spaceships headed out of the solar system by the year 2111. The military tech agency yesterday issued a call for papers to be presented at the 100 Year Starship Study Symposium which is to be held in …
"Or do you have an idea on how to modify the geometry of spacetime just in front of you into a desired configuration?"
Simple - just work out what shape of planet made out of metallic hydrogen or neutoronium you need, and build it right in front of you!
Oh, better patent that now then, eh?
Oh, and DARPA I'm having a sale today, you can get the plans and specs for that at a 75% discount for today only, that will be $102,250,799 ext. GST, kthxbai
Why drag them into it, they just screw things up. Unless, of course, the 100 year starship will be used to shoot all the lawyers and politicians into space so they can't bother us anymore If that is Plan B or preferably Plan A then I would submit radiation shielding, life support, food etc is not really a major concern. Just make sure there is enough fuel to ensure the fuckers aren't dragged back into the solar system
I for one welcome this wish for exploration.
Olde-world ship explorations gave us the 'new world', and in the passage of time faster ships and aircraft made faster travel and migration possible.
So these initial space explorations are like sending a boat out for months (and years) at a time, returning with tales of Australian Platypuses and Kangaroos.
My only fear is that to get those faster ships and aircraft, war had to occur. Will it take WW3 to develop NLS / FTL engines?
As Arthur C Clarke once said, if Humankind survives for a fraction of time that the dinosaurs did, for but a fleeting moment in history 'ships' shall refer to 'spaceships'.
Otherwise getting out of the solar system will need a *lot* of shielding.
Closed cycle life support would be a *really* good idea, otherwise it's a hell of a lot of ready meals to the next star system
I've always quite liked the scheme in the Jerry Anderson movie Doppleganger / Journey to the far side of the Sun with the crew hooked up to heart / lung machines for the voyage. Sadly the record for this IRL (using hyperthermia) is about 45 minutes and the brainn activity really does seems to be completely flat, then starts up as the patient is warmed up.
. Bumping that up to say a month would be a real DARPA style challenge (IE apparently barking mad) but I can't think of a military application for doing so.
On the modern battlefield heart problems tend to be in the form of a large hole in the soldiers chest where their heart (and various other bits) used to be.
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