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  • #286
    Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
    Therefore it would take roughly 60 years to achieve 1 light year. The nearest 'suspected' terrestrial exoplanet is roughly 4 light years from the sun?
    It took 50 years to get to 1 light-day. It's going to take a hell of a lot longer than 60 more :-)

    Sometime around the year 19,620
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    Originally posted by SanTropez
    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
    Originally posted by Kepler
    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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    • #287
      Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post

      Can I get it converted to Warp factors?
      Isn't warp a logarithmic scale?

      Edit: LOL! This is great. And not at ALL what I picture in my head.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-oI5Y4sAi8
      Last edited by dxmnkd316; 06-30-2021, 03:37 PM.
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      Originally posted by SanTropez
      May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
      Originally posted by bigblue_dl
      I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
      Originally posted by Kepler
      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
      He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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      • #288
        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

        Isn't warp a logarithmic scale?
        Um ... ah ... folks have the gauges figured out, now we just need the vehicle and engine ... I guess ...
        The preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.

        North Dakota Hockey:

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        • #289
          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

          It took 50 years to get to 1 light-day. It's going to take a hell of a lot longer than 60 more :-)

          Sometime around the year 19,620
          /slaps head

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          • #290
            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

            I have to sit down and think about this post after work
            Ok, I couldn't wait.

            Is there any kind of theoretical limit to Solar boundary, gravity-assisted speed? There has to be, right?

            God bless Stack Exchange, Yahoo Answers for smart(er) people.


            So at some point, Kepler's scale breaks down and something else has to drive. Because so far, we've been using gravity assists for all spaceflight so far. Gravity assist can only get you so fast without requiring more "interactions" with the sun and jupiter and it just isn't going to work.

            If you take:
            (Chemical Propulsion)+(Gravitational Assist)+(-\_(")_/-) = speed

            When does GA become small relative to CP and (-\_(")_/-)?
            I don't know. But I do know Lynah is going to spend an hour typing up an amazing reply that both answers the question, questions chemical engineers' intelligence, and make us all laugh at the same time. :-D ;-)
            Last edited by dxmnkd316; 06-30-2021, 04:09 PM.
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            Originally posted by SanTropez
            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
            Originally posted by Kepler
            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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            • #291
              Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post

              /slaps head
              Eh, 2081 might as well be 19,620 for you and (likely) me.
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              Originally posted by SanTropez
              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
              Originally posted by Kepler
              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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              • #292
                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

                Eh, 2081 might as well be 19,620 for you and (likely) me.
                I dunno about you man but with my family's genes 118 isn't a stretch.
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                • #293
                  Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

                  Eh, 2081 might as well be 19,620 for you and (likely) me.
                  Assuming man could today propel a similar object at 10x the speed of Voyager 2, it would take 6 years to travel one light day, 2,190 years to travel one light year and 4 to 12 times that to reach the nearest estimated extraterrestrial exoplanet.

                  Fffffff

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                  • #294
                    Space is very difficult to fully appreciate in the human mind.
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                    Originally posted by SanTropez
                    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                    Originally posted by Kepler
                    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                    • #295
                      So in spite of many years of development, and watching how SpaceX SHOWS a launch- Blue Origin still sucks at the presentation.

                      Sounds sucks really badly, and the video seems as if it was from the 60's, but in color- and we could barely understand what they were saying. Whereas SpaceX has high def cameras all over the place- there would have been 5-6 live feeds inside the cabin that would not have broken up at all.

                      Not a fan of either billionaire, but come on Bezos. Copying a better product is not a bad idea, this is more like one of your crappy copy's that you charge a fortune for.

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                      • #296
                        Meh. **** them all. I'm getting sick of the worship these *******s are getting for something we did 50+ years ago.

                        Tax the rich. We shouldn't have someone able to afford to have their own private space program. Much less three.
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                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West
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                        • #297
                          Are these private space companies allowed to use/develop nuclear power sources?
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                          • #298
                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Meh. **** them all. I'm getting sick of the worship these *******s are getting for something we did 50+ years ago.

                            Tax the rich. We shouldn't have someone able to afford to have their own private space program. Much less three.
                            Yep. How about instead creating a way to wank off at 50 miles up you, oh I dont know, END ****ING HUNGER YOU SELF IMPORTANT JACKWAGONS! Fund Climate change research and green tech implementation. (shut up Elon you are no better) Fix homelessness or fund education...

                            NASA Astronauts are heroes (especially the early ones) these guys are ****ing COSPLAYERS with too much money and too little dicks.
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                            • #299
                              They could probably afford to do both things. I doubt it occurred to them.
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                              • #300
                                Originally posted by Handyman View Post

                                Yep. How about instead creating a way to wank off at 50 miles up you, oh I dont know, END ****ING HUNGER YOU SELF IMPORTANT JACKWAGONS! Fund Climate change research and green tech implementation. (shut up Elon you are no better) Fix homelessness or fund education...

                                NASA Astronauts are heroes (especially the early ones) these guys are ****ing COSPLAYERS with too much money and too little dicks.
                                Yes, yes, and yes. At least Gates has done something worthwhile with his fortune.
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