Hyperspace travel?

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:56 am

Take a leap into hyperspace
New Scientist, 05 January 2006

If this happens, it would be possible to reach Mars in less than 3 hours and a star 11 light years away in only 80 days, Dröscher and Häuser say.

Fascinating article, if you're into this sort of thing.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:05 am

we're still having trouble with hyperlinks here...

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:19 pm

Great reading! Thx, Mr. Luder.

djm

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:28 pm

Burkhard Heim had a remarkable life. Born in 1925 in Potsdam, Germany, he decided at the age of 6 that he wanted to become a rocket scientist. He disguised his designs in code so that no one could discover his secret. And in the cellar of his parents' house, he experimented with high explosives. But this was to lead to disaster.

Remarkable, indeed.
Tony

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:09 am

Excellent link, Slude

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:17 am

fascinating! thanks!

Post by **Dale** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:18 am

Interesting. I've always thought that the only real chance we have to really do long-range manned spaceflight (Mars and certainly beyond the solar system) would require us to get lucky and discover something about nature that could be exploited to get us there faster. Absent those, I think that the biological and psychological issues are too great to overcome. Even now, I think a Mars mission wouldn't quite be a suicide mission, but something pretty close.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:01 am

Dale wrote: Even now, I think a Mars mission wouldn't quite be a suicide mission, but something pretty close.

In a sense though, life is a suicide mission. I'm sure someone would volunteer to fly in the Ringcraft.

Oh, oh...maybe this is why flying saucers are saucers and spin!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:11 am

emmline wrote:Oh, oh...maybe this is why flying saucers are saucers and spin!

I had the exact same thought.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:59 am

The spinning teacups ride at Disneyland. Oh, I got so sick. I grabbed the center wheel and spun it, getting caught up in the excitement of the moment. Bad mistake.
Tony

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:39 am

I watched a show about home inventors not too long ago. There was a really old guy, nearly toothless, baggy old plaid shirt and suspenders, working in a beat up old shed way out in the bush in the back of beyond piled high with all manner of crap. He was gumming away in a real thick Ontario accent about this thing he was doing with magnets and spinning rings and how flying saucers probably use something similar. Kinda scary to see "bona fide" scientists are just catching up to him.

djm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:58 am

TonyHiggins wrote:The spinning teacups ride at Disneyland. Oh, I got so sick. I grabbed the center wheel and spun it, getting caught up in the excitement of the moment. Bad mistake.
Tony

Gastric ejecta in a spiral form is pretty cool, though.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:03 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
TonyHiggins wrote:The spinning teacups ride at Disneyland. Oh, I got so sick. I grabbed the center wheel and spun it, getting caught up in the excitement of the moment. Bad mistake.
Tony
Gastric ejecta in a spiral form is pretty cool, though.

yes, all surrounding can enjoy the moment too.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:06 pm

amar wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:
TonyHiggins wrote:The spinning teacups ride at Disneyland. Oh, I got so sick. I grabbed the center wheel and spun it, getting caught up in the excitement of the moment. Bad mistake.
Tony
Gastric ejecta in a spiral form is pretty cool, though.
yes, all surrounding can enjoy the moment too.

Absolutely!

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:10 pm

we live to give, be it from our depth too.