April 30 2015
It would be able to do it with only nuclear fuel, with absolutely nothing expelled from the spacecraft. The only limit to travel would be how long the reactor and thruster lasted. This system could get to the nearest star (other than the sun) in about 8 years, AS IT IS NOW, not the 90 years Nasa quoted.
At any rate, it will all be good if it worked, ONLY IF the "elite" could avoid being the destroying aliens on independence day. Don't hold your breath for hope, I really do think they are that bad. We'd be galactic parasites if not full blown terrorists if they found a way to make it happen.
How fast is the speed of light? Actually, not very fast. With a standard acceleration of 32 feet per second (1 g) you would hit the speed of light in less than a year. Any real thruster technology would do that with ease. The Chinese impulse drive will probably eventually hit that level with refinements. The thrust is real already, not just a fringe effect with theoretical hopes.
Speed of light at 1g: 32x3600x24x365/5280 = 191,127 miles/second with 1 year of acceleration. Speed of light = 186,000 miles / second. Even impulse drive would be super useful at 1 g, Alpha Centauri, fully parked, in 5.5 years!
China definitely invented impulse drive, and Nasa may have come up with warp drive.
I have read up on the reports and discarded the disinfo and fluff. Here is the skinny: By taking a standard microwave oven magnetron and placing it in a cone shaped metallic structure, the Chinese, beyond a doubt, have come up with an impulse drive that could, if powered by a nuclear reactor (obviously with a much larger magnetron) get a large spacecraft to Mars in less than a week, as it is RIGHT NOW. There is a lot of fluff trying to cover this up by quoting only thrust levels from Nasa's far less successful efforts that would get to mars in 90 days.It would be able to do it with only nuclear fuel, with absolutely nothing expelled from the spacecraft. The only limit to travel would be how long the reactor and thruster lasted. This system could get to the nearest star (other than the sun) in about 8 years, AS IT IS NOW, not the 90 years Nasa quoted.
To compliment this, Nasa probably has the beginnings of warp drive
Nasa scientists have noted a temporal distortion in front of one of their latest projects (which appears as a mirage effect) that is 40 times in excess of what the input power could account for in terms of a distortion created by a mirage due to heating of the air. They are guessing it is a real compression of space / time. The power levels they are using are so low that scaling them up to something useful would be easy. They will be testing this in a vacuum, where if the mirage effect still appears will prove it really does work. This, if successfully coupled to the already proven successful and fully explainable testable and observable chinese "impulse drive" would make star trek like space travel a reality, with the impulse engines providing the velocity needed to make a warp bubble useful. You sort of have to be a trekkie to know what I am talking about with regard to a warp bubble . . . . .At any rate, it will all be good if it worked, ONLY IF the "elite" could avoid being the destroying aliens on independence day. Don't hold your breath for hope, I really do think they are that bad. We'd be galactic parasites if not full blown terrorists if they found a way to make it happen.
How fast is the speed of light? Actually, not very fast. With a standard acceleration of 32 feet per second (1 g) you would hit the speed of light in less than a year. Any real thruster technology would do that with ease. The Chinese impulse drive will probably eventually hit that level with refinements. The thrust is real already, not just a fringe effect with theoretical hopes.
Speed of light at 1g: 32x3600x24x365/5280 = 191,127 miles/second with 1 year of acceleration. Speed of light = 186,000 miles / second. Even impulse drive would be super useful at 1 g, Alpha Centauri, fully parked, in 5.5 years!
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