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Read my post again ( that is why if I was commander of country I would spend money into rocket research and technology and still after 50 or 100 years of money going into rocket research and technology we still do not know if there is any technology or propulsion system to take us to stange 2. ) False if they found new propulsion system and fixed the engineering problem they would use it.No one knows what breakthroughs will happen or how fast the breakthroughs will happen or no breakthroughs .So putting number on it is immature of your part. I'm sure they are !! Fine that do the same with medicine has it is pouring money down the drain to find cure for all cancer, all autoimmune disease and fountain of youth ,HIV so on not say the energy problem and mostly likely none of this will come true. What are you talking about what does women have do with space cost? No it cannot happen now do to cost I was trying to explain that to you in my post above. Well again you did not read my post ( Race that learn how to bring the cost down so it can take off like the steam engine or combustion engine to open up space for the majority and allow space mining and space colony ) The world majority would be the majority of people on earth. Learn how to dumb the replies to grade 9 level of no rocket science knowledge so I will understand the replies of the main engineering problems of laser and microwave so I'm not asking over and over here what is the main engineering problems are. Here I will do the work for you . ability to read and understand the replies here The engineering problems with laser is we do not have a laser powerful enough and we need gigawatt power .So the 2 main problems with laser is it needs enormous power and we do not have a laser powerful enough . Also the leaser will not work in space.So that is 3 main engineering problems why it is scfi and not reality. And from InigoMontoya post on microwave saying that microwave like laser will not work in space has there is no air in space. All you need do have done is reply say now nec209 you understand why laser will not work.Well I'm sure there may be other engineering problems too why laser and microwave will not work.You could say. How is some one into learning science (no knowledge of rock science )go to NASA web site ,watch discovery or read a magazine so on see a post about laser ,microwave or space elevator and understand the engineering problems why this is scfi and will be scfi. And yet you understand rock science and say I'm kid cought up into scfi world when I don't undertand not even 1.5% of rock science .I did not say building UFO's or star trek Enterprise D or in 50 years we will have warp-drive ? I could understand such a reply to those comments posted by me but laser ,microwave or space elevator shame on you.When even this mainstream scientist are talking about it.

It is more conplex than that most countries have little money to put into healthcare ,roads ,poor people and poverty so on than that alone money to put into space program.Also space mining is not profitable do to the cost is so high and space colony is so silly to think that will happen soon. It is not in the future will we have space mining and space colony in 50 years from now ,100 years from now , 150 years from now ,200 ,years from now ,300 years from now,500 or 900 years from now or 20,000 years from now the question is can it be down in cheap way and chemical rockets are like a alcoholic with are money . It not when space mining and space colony are going to happen but is there a propulsion system that will make it cheap enough to make it reality.Has going into space is not cheap , space mining is not profitable and even space colony it is too costly for the upper middle class and yes even upper class to pay to go into space. And yes a space colony sound nice but think about it you are living on the moon or mars you have to live in a futuristic dome city has if you go out of the dome there is no air to breath ,too hot or cold ,no water ,no food so on you will have to cargo all your food and water to your space colony not to say building material.Even vertical farming in the dome city may not be enough.My point is we can do all this but it be way way way way way too costly with chemical rockets to make this a reality.So it is not when space mining and space colony going to happen but is the technology or propulsion system that will make it cheap enough to make it reality. You could categorize any space race in 3 stages . 1. Race that learns how to go in space ( satellite,space probes ,robots.spacewalk and space station. 2. Race thant learn how to bring the cost down so it can take of like the steam engine or combustion engine to open up space for the majority and allow space mining and space colony 3.Race that larns how to travel from one star system to other star system like in star trek We are in stange 1 and have not found any technology or propulsion system to take us to stange 2. The steam engine or combustion engine allow so much fast progress every year that is not the case with chemical rockets only astronautes can go into space and cost so much money it is like a alcoholic just to go to ISS for 4 days. So the big question is there a technology or propulsion system to take us to stange 2 or does all the humans on earth have to be really really rich ? That is why if I was commander of country I would spend money into rocket research and technology and still after 50 or 100 years of money going into rocket research and technology we still do not know if there is any technology or propulsion system to take us to stange 2. Sorry but chemical rockets did not play out like the steam engine or combustion engine.

Mr Skeptic .InigoMontoya and D H I have said over and over here I do not understand rocket science and even if i understood 12% of it most of the questions I would have not ask here.Do to I'm weak in understand rocket science I still do not understand the main engineering problems to make this from scfi to a reality? Only InigoMontoya post above post 72 do I come close to understand some of the engineering problems.So that me summarise if this is right ( ability to read and understand the replies here) .The engineering problems with laser is we do not have a laser powerful enough and we need gigawatt power .So the 2 main problems with laser is it needs enormous power and we do not have a laser powerful enough . Also the leaser will not work in space.So that is 3 main engineering problems why it is scfi and not reality. And from InigoMontoya post on microwave saying that microwave like laser will not work in space has there is no air in space. Has for space elevator I read some where on the internet if the cable snapped it would do alot of damage to the earth.The engineering problems on the space elevator I have not read up on. I don't need any rocket science to say my definition of space program is more than space probes,robots ,hubble and lucky did I say lucky enough money for a space station .My definition of space program is space mining, moon base and space colony and may be in the way way way future going to other star system like in star trek.No I'm not happing with the space program I thought we would have gone to mars by now and be getting into space mining and space colony now.

. It does not say how it flies back and land?What is gentle aero-braking? Does it land like how it takes off?

I agree 100% but say that to the lobbyist who will like to and at this time have major power doing away of humans in space .The European Union is full of these lobbyist and are in the US now and look at NASA in the past 5 years the 2012 retirement of space shuttle and no replacement yes no replacement the lobbyist are hard at work. Look the UK,European Union,Japan,South Korea, Israel and may be Canada have the technology to put people in space but not the money why to the lobbyist !! Now with China may be Japan and South Korea will have no choice now. By the way what is a nuclear light bulb ?

How can you say it will not be done in hospitals is the the holy grail finding way to turn gene on or off the god like power of playing with persons gene ?

What are the the main engineering problems has I do not understand rocket science.What are the main engineering problems to make this from scfi to a reality?

Are you talking about gene therapy and in 10 to 15 years using gene therapy?

What what ?? are you saying laser ,nuclear fission ,space elevator and microwave is all crack pot ideas?? And will not bring the cost down and will not work? Than why is there research going into it than?

What is your definition of space program? My definition of space program is more than just space probes,robots and hubble. And no Star Trek or Star Wars going to other star system or warp drive is way way way way way way beyond are level of technology today.Same with building big SSTO like in scfi and big enterprise D in star trek is way way way way beyond are level of technology today.If any of these are even scientifically possible but I will give them credit that we are too primitive to give reply to this. Look anyone that can bring space cost down by 30% or 50% would get a nobel prize physics.

It was the cold war the cold war NASA and air force put alot of money into x-projects among many different propulsion from the 60' s to late 90's and the x-projects in the 90's was high.But the governments cut the program even when research is still being done that is why government does bad job at doing things other than cold war . The x-33 had major problems but now the problems got fixed but guess what it got cancelled and the problems got fixed way after well not surprised has goverrnments are known to do this 50% or 70% into the research . NASA today putts very little money into different propulsion system than like before but it is a mistake among people that think NASA is a agency that is in the rocket science business they are not or even putting people into space.Look if it was not for the cold war we would not be going into space toady but using space probes that are way way way way cheaper than putting people into space. I say this again chemical rockets will not allows us to do space mining,live on the moon or mars ,cities on the moon or mars a moon base so on.Why way way way way way way to costly.And most countries are way more than haping using space probes. so yes the space program is doomed.

Look NASA would not be doing research and other people would not be doing research if on paper laser could work so you are false .It is one think for it to work on paper and other to test and build it . Yes there is engineering problems or NASA would be using it now or in the next 10 to 15 years from now.Again NASA does not give money to crack pot ideas so please go school before posting that this all BS.And explain why NASA was doing research into it. And if you think this is a crack pot idea please look at the 90's x-programs if you even know of what are the x-programs are they are nothing like what I'm posting here..

Why don't you explain the pros and cons and engineering problems of laser and microwave and why NASA is not using this .Well in 50 or 100 years from now is it possible.Is NASA still doing research into it.

I have no idea what you are talking about or how many gigawatts of power it would take just to take 3 or 4 people up into space and where they are going get that power. And in spae what they are going use Microwave or solar farm that will shine a laser beam to the craft.

About 5:05 in the video I have no idea what they are talking about ,I'm thinking that may be the they mean microwave and solar is what they are going to use in space.And it looks like a big solar farm that will shine a laser to the craft in space. No idea what aeoospike is or how laser will replace air places.

Look overpopulation and crude medicine not having close to star trek medicine is going to mean nothing in 50 or 100 years from now when ww3 comes about finding over water,food and oil yes this will happen the earth will go boom in 50 or 100 years do to overpopulation and lack of earth resources like food,water,coil ,oil and gas and mining. We do not have space ship that can do space mining or take people to moon and mars and live there and other star system and there is nothing on the drawing board so having only 1 kid is the only option and rationing to the rocket science improves.

Nice video on some of the biotechnology and bioengineering and how that will improve medicine and treatment and allow people to live longer . Biotech Revolution 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNA4axfLCc&feature=related Note Marat did you even watch part 2 of the video what they are going to do with that information? Biotech Revolution 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vihla-2CJ4I&feature=related

Nice video how a laser -propelled spacecraft concept would work. Note loss me about 5:05 in the video what they are talking about and what Microwave and solar has to do with it.

What do you mean by holographic ? The only holographic that looks like true holographic is this All 2 are fake and not true holographic.Well a true holographic will look like that but they are fake to look like a holographic. What is Holographic storage? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_storage By looking at that web site it seems it records by using pattern of laser beems and adjusting the reference beam angle so 0 bit may have reference that looks in shape than 1 bit reference .So by using the 2 adjusting laser pattern you can read and record using 0's and 1's .

First I don't know how these devices work or what is holding back these devices .It is very much in TV shows and movies the scfi !! My take is it be 50 years or more to we have it and still some of the devices may be scfi and have no science base. It will be cool if we had these devices but again I do not know how those devices work or if they have any science base. 1.Holographic like in star trek or star wars Princess Leia 2.Holographic storage 3.Molecular assembler Is any of these device scientifically possible and what is the engineering problems? I know with a laser gun or phaser like in star trek the main problem is a material problem and battery to have a battery smaller than you fist that can hold 2 megawatts of power and material that will not over head and brake do to the laser . But the molecular assembler ,holographic storage or holographic like Princess Leia no idea how it works or what is the engineering problem?

Why would it not work in space.You add energy to laser the laser heats up the air and cause the craft to go up.

There are 3 ways a craft may get up into space using laser . 1.A craft shines laser beem out the craft to heat up the aire to get the craft to go up 2.Wel uses laser pulse and rides on the pulse to get it up into space 3.Well at the ground they shine a laser beem to the craft to get it to go up. Note solar sails cannot be used to get the craft up into space it must be used for in space propulsion only. From what I understand payload is problem has laser propulsion the craft has to be very small and need so much power gigawatt power.I think this where they stuck trying fix this problem. A power problem and payload too small has the craft does not allow for bigger payload .

Mr Skeptic you still did not reply to my last post or say the pros and cons of laser propulsion and some of the problems they are having with laser propulsion.

Well are you talking about state of the art technology or socialized medicine.Why because socialized medicine may make it fair for everyone but not state of the art technology . Alot of the times the university hospitals or private hospital get state of the art technology before the other hospital .And patients in those hospitals are more likely to be on clicical trials like new drugs ,stem cell and other treatment than the other hospitals that get it 10 or 15 years later.

The study will show how the immune system works and show how the HIV and the body works and this will lead to better treatment and may be a cure in the future