nuclear fusion drive, nuclear fission drive, solar sail, anti-matter drive, gravity drive, spacefold drive, slipstream drive, hyper drive, warp 9.99? Can you rank them and where does light speed fall in comparison?
2006-07-20 10:20:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
seeing as how NONE of those exist besides solar sail (which is very very slow)... no you cant rank them
nuclear propulsion is limited to:
nuclear thermal, nuclear electric, pulsed nuclear, and a couple others mostly theoretical... only nuclear thermal and nuclear electric have been tried and used.
speed of light = 300,000,000 m/s
fastest speed any manmade craft has ever gone = about 10,000 m/s (that was Deep Space One powered by a xenon ion engine)
2006-07-20 10:36:16 · answer #1 · answered by AresIV 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fastest thing ever "flown" has been deep space 1 propelled by its ion drive. It doesn't have a large amount of thrust--rather minuscule when compared to chemical rockets--but it keeps steadily increasing speed. The next fastest thing was the Saturn V rockets used for the Apollo missions. About the fastes thing flying now is the shuttle which gets to approx 17,500mph when in orbit. Well, then I guess the ISS qualifies too, but it only has orbital maintenance thrusters, not really engines.
2006-07-20 10:55:20 · answer #2 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The non-locality quantum weirdness that seems to establish a connection at the quantum subatomic level with everything in the entire universe at once. If you're talking about humans, unfortunately it's chemically-propelled spaceships.
2006-07-20 17:41:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As already said, you can't rank them ... yet.
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2006-07-20 11:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by r0bErT4u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think to humans a jet plane or rocket is the fastest form of travel but in future it will be a time machine or an alien ship will be the fastest way to travel
2006-07-20 10:40:14 · answer #5 · answered by Jisna S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Astral travel is the fastest. Try remote Viewing it's fun! Oh yes, make sure you wear astral protection.
2006-07-20 11:24:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Travelling backward in time. You arrive before you left!
2006-07-20 16:40:13 · answer #7 · answered by myanswer418 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-20 10:23:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋