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Originally Posted by VALKYRIE013  well i remember an old movie.. i think with andy grifith.. where he went to the moon in a privatly built ship to collect an LM lower half.. and he used constant acceleration.. got him there in 1 day i belive... plus a number of books using the concept.. more of a distance thing going from planete to planet than just lazing about in orbit..  |
You are talking about the TV series
Salvage-1. The show did have quite a few scientific mistakes.
But what I said still stands: to do a constant acceleration like that is going to take an advanced propulsion system with an exhaust velocity over 100 kilometers per second. A solid core NTR just ain't gonna cut the mustard.
Do the math.
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Originally Posted by VALKYRIE013 i'm a sci fi geek as well... i have days going threw wikipedia just researching ftl, and near future drives just because it interests me  |
Ah, but I claim trump over your geekdom, since I actually wrote a website on those topics.
Thus I am more pathetic than you are.
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