Comments on: Give it up, Anakin, I have the high ground https://blog.speculist.com/nanotechnology/give-it-up-anakin-i-have-the-high-ground.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: kc3ddd https://blog.speculist.com/nanotechnology/give-it-up-anakin-i-have-the-high-ground.html#comment-5372 kc3ddd Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:12:02 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2207#comment-5372 There’s a saying, “Once you’ve escaped earth’s gravity, your’e halfway to anywhere.” Because that is the hardest part of any space voyage.

So, just in case some of you didn’t see this story about a
British aerospace company that says they will build a true space plane in ten years, here’s the link:

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/analysis/out-of-this-world/1004713.article

I wonder if in ten to fifteen years, we will have the technology so that the fuel to escape gravity doesn’t have to be carried but is transmitted aboard as needed. That would make it a lot easier.

]]> By: stephentg https://blog.speculist.com/nanotechnology/give-it-up-anakin-i-have-the-high-ground.html#comment-5371 stephentg Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:09:09 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2207#comment-5371 The physical requirements of a physical human body are a tough one to provide for on a generations-long mission to (even) the nearest stars.

And then, once you get there, will there be a planet like Earth that could allow an human to live comfortably? Not likely.

Von Neumann probes look more likely to me.

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