Cap'n Refsmmat

At 1g acceleration, you'd hit c in around a year. Not counting relativity. It simply would not be practical to have enough power to do high-g manuevers, since the collection area for hydrogen would have to be humongous. 1g takes a 4000 km wide area! And that's with a theoretical FUSION engine, anyways. (this from The Starflight Handbook). Turning is easy. You just can't turn very hard. But for exploration missions you don't need to anyways.

G-suits? What the heck for? If they wanted to accelerate at 1g, you'd need a 4000 kilometer wide collection scoop for the engine, anyways! 1g is great. Like what we'd feel on earth. No g-suits.

Surplus food can be put in deep freeze, or dehydrated so it would last forever. MREs last only something like 4 years. And with someone getting sick with no symptoms, I really doubt that human diseases can be transmitted to plants.

It's probably because Acrobat has to be loaded into RAM from the hard drive, but the next few times it's already in RAM. When you quit Netscape it's dumped from the RAM. It's not that slow for me, so perhaps your hard drive has a slower speed, or something.

You have surplus. Extra. Spare. Whatever.

this is beside the point! What my idea was originally was for them to GROW their own food! No MREs. d'oh!

Quite a bit of extra weight compared to simply using the heat packs. You can get the water from the usual drinking water sets.

Microwaves interfere with electronic systems, too. Try talking on a 2.4 ghz cordless phone next to a running microwave. Thus, they both have disadvantages.

Hmmm.... maybe 20 hours. I obviously haven't had many of the experiences you people had.

Would the alternator in the car be able to keep up with the energy demand, or would the battery quit with the microwave running?

I don't know about that. Think about it. In gravity it will pour down and puddle at the bottom. In 0g it will float around the bag freely, and you can shake it to get it to spread. Dehydrated food is filled on the space shuttle and when water is added, it gets spread evenly all over the food. The water doesn't just stay at where you squirt it. I think they would work quite well.

What browser?

Squirt the water in from a container. How do you think people on the space shuttle do their dehydrated foods? And shake it to circulate it.

How do heater packs rely on gravity? The heaters are "just add water" type things.

Trust me, you'd like Sanibel. Anyone would.

Obviously your brain knows what you would pay attention to normally, and what you wouldn't, and applies that to sleep as well.

Makes it look ugly. Now, without them, it has a nice, old style type look. Ever seen Myrtle Beach? On one road, on the OUTSKIRTS of the city, we saw about 10 EACH of 3 or 4 types of beach stores. Sanibel, however, looks nice and has great food, good little shops, and so on without the gigantic superstores that really make it look bad. Keep in mind this is a very small island.

What is your favorite place to go on vacation? I prefer Sanibel Island, Florida, which is right off of Fort Myers. The best part is that there's no fast food restaurants, no neon signs, and no chain restaurants (except for a Dairy Queen that squirted through). Everything else is native to the island, and they have the best food. Plus there's great shelling (I found a 1-foot + LIVE shell!) and sunsets... What are yours?

Can't we have it like we did before, where it's based in the browser instead of in a seperate program?

Do you have one of those rotating microwave platters? I'd think it would help eliminate the problem... Don't worry dave, I'll use it instead.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5327

Overbalanced wheels don't work. What they are supposed to do is be a big wheel with weights on long flexible rods. Somehow on one side the rods are extended, and on the other folded. Thus the leverage is supposed to keep it turning. But the weight is equal on each side, so it doesn't work.

Hook them in series or parrallel?

Pet animals can hear sounds we can't, which means they can probably hear the distinctive impossible-for-humans-to-hear whine of your engine. The other one I'm not so sure about, but if I hear anything about it I will post it.