Man, this is a weird tangent. Say that NASA has figured out a way to jump from here to there in a reasonable amount of time but has the return-trip issue. Why would the US government consider funding this? You take a gojillion dollars of super new technology, dozens or hundreds of your smartest and most capable citizens and *bam* you send them into the void and get absolutely nothing in return. You don't get the explorers back, you don't get cargo holds full of dilithium crystals back, and you don't even get the material cost of the ship back. What you get is some pictures beamed back by the crew, something you can just as easily do with an unmanned craft.
The reason no one goes to the moon anymore is that there is no incentive. The reason no one has landed on Mars yet is that there is also no incentive. What could motivate our government to willfully maroon a bunch of folks on Planet X? If no one is coming back to talk about it on Oprah or pass around tribbles and space rocks, why bother?
dur23-- yeah,conspiracy theories aside, tesla's experiments WERE all over the place. He's easily one of the most underappreciated scientists ever.
I remember reading a few essays about his experiments involving electro-magnetics. Apparently the gov't siezed a ton of his notes/records after his death, and now they've 'disapeared' even though they're still cross referenced elsewheres. That probably helped the conspiracy theorists link him to everything from death rays to EMPs to the Tunguska incident. Pretty science fictiony.
Faster than light travel maybe only a few years away from now???
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Thanks for that link dude, really interesting read. Though its annoying reading about theories such as this, because chances are they'll never be realised in our lifetime.
I betcha the gravity problem will be solved by the space elevator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Once the tech was working, I'd guess it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to build it upon arrival to another planet.
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The reason no one goes to the moon anymore is that there is no incentive. The reason no one has landed on Mars yet is that there is also no incentive. What could motivate our government to willfully maroon a bunch of folks on Planet X? If no one is coming back to talk about it on Oprah or pass around tribbles and space rocks, why bother?
I remember reading a few essays about his experiments involving electro-magnetics. Apparently the gov't siezed a ton of his notes/records after his death, and now they've 'disapeared' even though they're still cross referenced elsewheres. That probably helped the conspiracy theorists link him to everything from death rays to EMPs to the Tunguska incident. Pretty science fictiony.
Pretty fun watch and quite obvious the moon landing was real.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200-take-a-leap-into-hyperspace.html
Faster than light travel maybe only a few years away from now???
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Thanks for that link dude, really interesting read. Though its annoying reading about theories such as this, because chances are they'll never be realised in our lifetime.
-caseyjones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Once the tech was working, I'd guess it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to build it upon arrival to another planet.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue288/books2.html