our modern space probes take about 9 months or so to get to mars from earth. that's long. I know it's far but why don't they use more propultion up there. there's no cops, no speed limit (except light speed), no friction. so as long as the gas peddle is pushed, the ship accelerates. why not give it some gas, slingshot around the moon like in armageddon, and do capt kirk a solid and hit warp 1.1 already. at the current rate, it takes too much of an astronaught's lifetime to make it worth going anywhere significant like the moons of jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune. these moons are not just dead rocks like our moon. they have volcanism, no not like Spock, but volcanoes, geisers, glaciers etc. but it takes a decade to get there. we need to move faster in space in order to do anything outside of our solar system. there are billions of other suns in our galaxy alone. some of them probably have big chunks orbiting them as well like our planets. we might find suitable planets
2007-01-10
08:33:52
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JizZ E. Jizzy
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