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Re: Super light-weight Space-Crafts of the future!!!
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
What we need is a better and lighter power supply. The gaseous core nuclear reactor engine has an Isp of over 3000 to about 5000 that is as much as 10 times as good as the Saturn five rocket. This rocket can not only be operated safely but if it massed the same as the Saturn five rocket it could launch 2 million pounds of cargo into Earth orbit in one launch! Not only that it could also fly back down on it's own exhaust and carry cargo back to earth. It would be a true space ship, no multiple throw away stages. Just one space craft capable of doing almost anything we want it to do.
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What exactly is ISP, and a gaseous nuclear core reactor engine?
And how will structural strength increase it's speed specifically?
I'm talking about nano structure mastery to the point where something can be light, still strong enough to last for a long time, and doesn't shatter, break or deform as easily as diamond or titanium.
All it needs is a really strong nano-structure, as CraigD pointed out there is a limit, but it's probably a vast one at that.
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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; 09-29-2008 at 07:01 PM..
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