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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Matrix: [QB] Ummm.... no. For NASA it costs them $40 per kg to lift something off the ground with conventional means of space travel. Rockets are just localized explosions beneath the ship, very inefficient and expensive to do. Nuclear Propulsion? No, again it would be by a means of a localized explosion behind the ship. If we find a efficient way of propelling the ship, then it is still no. While Nuclear Propulsion seems to be practically unlimited on Earth's Oceans, we are talking about about a million miles range. Which is impressive on the ocean but not space. To Mars which is about 260 million miles away, the space ship with Nuclear Propulsion would need to refuel b(if you are good with math) 260 times give or take a few million miles. So no, Nuclear Propulsion is out. Yes it is very hard to effectively protect a ship from Radiation without being impossibly expensive. (A alloy would have to be a mix of lead and the Space shuttle exterior plus other exotic materials). Remember radiation is culmative, so if we manage to shield the ship from 99.99% of the radiation, that .01% will start to add up from 200+ days travel to Mars. FTL? The current and most accepted theory is that conventional means of FTL is impossible. What do I mean by coventional? Conventional by a means of a engine setup and a type of fuel. To travel past speed of light we have to be greater than light itself to achieve this and light is at the very end of energy. Thats only if we ignore the time travel theory. Gravity very easy, because if you spin a a tire and keeps something inside it, that object will stay there. Star Trek type gravity is far from our technology but not impossible. We will see something like that within a few decades. There is a way of opening a wormhole, by todays technology. All you need to do is heat a specific area trillions and trillions of degrees and produce a massive gravitational spot in that exact spot. And there you go, a wormhole, to where no clue but it is a wormhole. No one has done it yet though. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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