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Super light-weight Space-Crafts of the future!!!
A good Science Fiction oriented space craft would be a super light spacecraft.
If we had nano assemblers we could essentially give Aerogel a nanostructure that fortifies it's strength by composing it's structure with nanotubes such as these.
There is no limit to how strong we could make it, we just need to engineer a stronger structure, and this doesn't increase it's mass.
So imagine a spacecraft made of a material as light as Aerogel and as strong as Titanium or Diamond.
A 1000 pound spacecraft made of this material would have such volume that it would be a LOT faster, because it would take many times less thrust to push it.
A spacecraft made of this material could be 40 km tall and travel just as fast as a modern chemical rocket, but hold a massive amount of fuel, and burn just a little bit of it to travel at these speeds.
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"We believed the world would not be the same, a few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent, I remembered a line from the Hindu scripture, the bagavagita, Vishnu was trying to convince the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, he takes on his multi-armed form and says, Now I have become death, destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, in one way or another"
-Robert J Oppenheimer, The atomic bomb
Last edited by Gardamorg; 09-28-2008 at 03:12 PM..
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