Cap'n Refsmmat

He's a moderator, so he gets one anyways.

I can tell we're optimists. I've been drawing my ideas for this for a few days, and at some point I'll come up with the best design... funny, though, that they all have nacelles like Star Trek. Anybody else going to draw them? I mean, I'm drawing cross-sections... that is fun. But that's beside the point. The point is, is it possible?

How do we pay for it?

For food: I have seen an article stating that scientists "grew" meat artificially in a lab. The meat was taken (while fresh and still alive, at a cellular level) and put in a bowl of nutrients. It grew. You can also grow fruits and veggies, and with no gravity, you can grow them on all of the walls of a room, and the ceiling.

Why was his custom title changed back from Strawman Alert to Atom?

If you do it only at the start and the end, you don't get there as fast as accelerating the first half, and decelerating to get into orbit in the last half. Your average speed is higher than just the start and the end.

But why was it changed back to "Atom"?

Tsunami is one of those, sort of. A tsunami is a humongous wave too.

You're confusing it with ion engines. The hydrogen nuclear engines have 50-400% more thrust than chemical engines. Use the hydrogen in space for fuel. Maneuvering? Thrust vectoring! Swivel the nozzles.

Nuclear reactor=gets lots and lots of power to collect hydrogen over a wider area. Plus, when you're going fast, you go past more and more hydrogen faster and faster, so you get more the faster you go.

If you strawman someone, it means that you don't read any of the proof they provide, you just prove that they are wrong with faulty evidence, AND, make their ideas look different from what they are.

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_engine http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket Copy those into your browser, without the space after http://

They're trying to find out if we'll be vaporized by a nuclear attack. You can't just suddenly send all of your agents out of Russia and North Korea and send them to Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan. It doesn't work that way. Most of the satellites are in orbit to hit Russia more than other places. We can't change that all. So intelligence needs MORE money to change all that.

Therapeutic cloning=good. Saves lives. Reproductive cloning=I don't know why it's bad, but it just is.

Ion engines with 900 seconds of thrust (not seconds of time)-no! Hold on-... Let's compare ion engines to my suggested rocket. Click the links. They're different. So really, it's different. Read the WHOLE article, it gets better as it goes on.

Ummm... no. Not ions. I'm talking about the one in the link I just edited into my post. Powerful. Just use 2 or 3 of them. edit: I have to go for about half an hour, so I won't argue for a while.

Why anti-matter/matter? Not necessary.

Sorry. Temporary memory loss about chernobyl. But do you want a spaceship designed to go on LONG RANGE missions constantly needing to refuel while in deep space? That's the same reason why you can't have to have a space station around Venus. You grow your own, and if it all dies, you're dead. I remember reading about how scientists took still-live muscle from a sheep or cow and grew it artificially, so you get meat by growing it too. Ok, the ship would probably be for this type of mission: You fly out with a deep-space telescope or sensor, blast out of the solar system, and release it at a certain point. You can monitor it, get information from it, and repair it from the ship. You could also use on-board sensors to orbit a planet and do investigations not possible with probes, where you can't have the probe take pictures of the best stuff (astronauts can pick good shots better than satellites, in things like picking up atmospheric phenomena or lightning, while satellites are restricted to shooting at a certain interval, and are less likely to pick it up). Just an exploration/scout ship.

Loss of pressure=instant death. How was it dealt with? Now that I've proven that the propulsion system will work, think for a moment about how much energy it takes to suck in a non-magnetic particle. It is possible (like levitating a non-magnetic frog) but it takes a HECK of a lot of energy. So nuclear reactors it is. And what is your alternative that will power a ship over a long journey?

*sigh* Government buerocracy...

Link? I'd try it on Norton if I could.

The hydrogen thing WOULD work. Think about it. Space isn't a pure vacuum. There are atoms there (200 per cubic centimeter, I'm told) so you can suck them in and blast them out at high heat to get thrust. But if you don't have a nuclear reactor, you can't go very far. Why do submarines have them? They need all of the energy, so that is not overkill! And only something like 5 nuclear reactors, of several hundred, have ever melted down. None has ever truly melted down and blown to smithereens (Chernobyl wasn't exactly a meltdown, I think, but even if it was, it was their crummy systems). Even without a reactor you can still die in hundreds of ways. Loss of pressure, starvation, etc. etc.

Yay! Norton blocked it instantly!

Don't the Borg use some sort of wormhole warp to hit high speeds? You know, custom-make wormholes so they can get places instantaneously? Never read Dune.