Not until we develop faster than light travel. The money should go into that and preparing for that rather than spending billions on sending a few people no further than mars.
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Well, NASA would be working harder on "Eagleworks" if they had the money...
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[quote]Not until we develop faster than light travel. The money should go into that and preparing for that rather than spending billions on sending a few people no further than mars.[/quote] Space travel isn't as easy as creating FTL travel, then going everywhere you want. You need to learn about the effects of space travel, living in zero gravity, limited gravity, high gravity, you get the idea... The billions spent on sending a few people to mars will be incredibly valuable information when we are ready to start exploring the rest of space, if we ever are.
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Why not instead focus on Asteroid mining operations? that'd be more profitable, and prove to idiots who think otherwise that Space is a good idea.
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Yeah you're right, we should invest in that too.
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...There's better ways of traveling beyond Mars than breaking the laws of physics.
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Edited by JAMES Z666: 7/15/2013 2:15:36 AMI disagree with it being "better".
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How can it "bring better?" I'm confused with how to bring something better.
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What do you mean?
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Nothing's more efficient than FTL
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Except for the fact that it's likely impossible, and even if possible, it would take years and years to develop. It would be more efficient to put FTL on the backburner (see if it's possible), and in the mean time focus on Deuterium Helium-3 fusion or forms of electric propulsion for interplanetary exploration.
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I agree that studying on DHe3 fusion is better than FTL, but FTL should still be top priority. Electric propulsion? I thought they were working on electromagnetic propulsion? Oh right... Interplanetary exploration is impossible without FTL. Efficient fusion engines can get you there but not quick enough to get you there before you age to death.
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Even current tech could get to Mars in a couple of months. That's interplanetary.
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We could get to Mars, yes. Probably even with simple DT fusion engines (you don't need them to produce more energy than you put in for engines unlike in power stations). All it needs is the government to back it but they're not. Seriously what else could it go on? [I]Bettering the country???[/I] Perlease let's just f,uck all that noise and go to mother,uckin mars man! I mean, it's Mars that's far more important than not starving to death!
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What do you mean? The speed of light IS pretty much the universal speed limit for anything, so it we need to look for something else. Our current rockets kind of suck, as they're severely limited by how much fuel can be carried. However, [url=http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2012_phaseII_fellows_slough.html]fusion engines[/url] are much more efficient AND are faster. There's also the concept of electric propulsion, such as [url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html]ion engines[/url] which is slow but steady and requires very little fuel, but aren't ideal for human transport due to their initially slow speed.