SeaGypsy wrote:Looks like nuke plasma drive? Interesting. Any ideas how to reverse thrust/ brake? Not much use being capable of acceleration within deep space if you can't then slow down.
Point it in the other direction.
SeaGypsy wrote:Looks like nuke plasma drive? Interesting. Any ideas how to reverse thrust/ brake? Not much use being capable of acceleration within deep space if you can't then slow down.
dissident wrote:Anatolij Perminov, head of Russian Space Agency announced that RKA is going to develop a nuclear powered spacecraft for deep space travel. Design will be done by 2012, and 9 more years for development (in space assembly). The price is set to 17 billion rubles (600 million dollars).[13] The nuclear propulsion would have mega-watt class, provided necessary funding, Roscosmos Head stated.
dorlomin wrote:SeaGypsy wrote:Looks like nuke plasma drive? Interesting. Any ideas how to reverse thrust/ brake? Not much use being capable of acceleration within deep space if you can't then slow down.
Point it in the other direction.
SeaGypsy wrote:Looks like nuke plasma drive? Interesting. Any ideas how to reverse thrust/ brake? Not much use being capable of acceleration within deep space if you can't then slow down.
radon wrote:dissident wrote:Anatolij Perminov, head of Russian Space Agency announced that RKA is going to develop a nuclear powered spacecraft for deep space travel. Design will be done by 2012, and 9 more years for development (in space assembly). The price is set to 17 billion rubles (600 million dollars).[13] The nuclear propulsion would have mega-watt class, provided necessary funding, Roscosmos Head stated.
"Provided necessary funding". What a stupid undertaking for Russia to be engaged in. If the US wants to harass the remote outer space then it's up to them (as long as they do not waste too much fossil fuels in the process), but for Russia, a "poor" underdeveloped country, to spend money on this type of project is totally non-sensible. Lots of other burning priorities. If anything, better spend these money on countering the ABM shield, far more useful being defense-oriented, and even the its scientific return would be more impressive. Most of people working on that nuclear engine would be involved in the anti-ABM stuff anyway, out of the remainder the productive ones would find use really easily on anti-ABM or other projects, and the non-productive ones are anyway useless leeches who do nothing other than lobbying this Martian fairy tail in order to park most of those 600 million to their personal pockets, including those outside Russia.
The situation changes of course if they secure exclusively foreign finance for this project, or if this engine is developed with a focus on the defense priorities. But it doesn't look like this.
dissident wrote:
The GDP doesn't care about what activity is being performed and its absolute value. The main thing is for money to circulate. This is why all the shock therapy from the 1990s and the associated non-payment of meager salaries for months on end was total criminal idiocy. I highly doubt that Russia's pool of people who can work on ABM systems and on this nuclear engine is so small as to make such projects mutually exclusive. If they really used all the 600 million to line their pockets then there would be nothing to show at the end of the project. This is not credible given that Russia develops weapons systems (e.g. Bulava, S-400) without blowing trillions on them, which would be the case if 4th world corruption levels were an accurate description of the current state of the country.
What "that"? Student loans and subsidized house/land mortgages for performing graduates?SeaGypsy wrote:Isn't that Stalin resurrected?
You probably misinterpreted something that I wrote - I never suggested shoving people around the country. Allocating various projects to them - true, but they do not have to move anywhere to do a different project. Instead of making engines for exploratory space rockets they can be making engines for commercial space launches or for the military on the same plant. Instead of making communication equipment for space they can be making communication for civil or commercial needs on the same plant. No need to travel anywhere, this is just how it really works in practice - they are often fulfilling space/military/civil/commercial orders in parallel on the same plant.SeaGypsy wrote:Shoving people around the country to suit the whim of government? / Supposedly in the name of productivity.
An ambitious new project has started. Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars in 2023. Only one problem, you can't come back.
The project plans to establish the first ever human settlement on Mars. The habitable settlement will be placed on Mars ready for the settlers when they land. This settlement will be set up so as to support them while they live and work on Mars.
The technical plan for the mission is being kept as simple as possible. Mars One have identified at least one supplier for every component required for the mission.
Only thing is, due to the difficulties involved, there will be no return to Earth for any of the crew. Once settled on Mars, they will remain there for the rest of their lives.
The whole project will be broadcast by the media back home, so that everyone can see their work and their discoveries on Mars. It will be a huge media spectacle.
In 2023, the first crew of 4 astronauts will emigrate to Mars - a journey that will take 7 months.
vision-master wrote:Binary Sun System (Sun/ Sirius) ??
http://binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/ ... ntro.shtml
vision-master wrote:It this model of our solar system BS?
Do the Planets really circle around the Sun in a nice orderly plane?
Does the Sun really just sit static in the Milky Way?
dissident wrote:vision-master wrote:You are not going to get any planetary system around binary star systems...
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