Solar Sails... your thoughts?

[Fat Tony!]

I once heard an idea to make a hydrogen bomb powered spaceship. We already have thousands of them. Just put a giant metal plate to absorb radiation on the back of the ship and detonate hydrogen bombs behind you.

Someone has been playing fps too much and constantly rocket/grenade/conc grenade jumping around too much . It make sense to me one swift grenade to the floor, stand on it and the flag is sure to be captured... oh sorry solar sails? Sounds good but there is obvious need for further development

 

[Death.Trap]

2 things the mass of the spaceship would increase to an infinite number
AND ! what about light coming at u from the opposite direction ? hmmm ?

i think that space travel will always be impossible for man because near lightspeeds are just unattainable.

Actually, you're wrong. Special relativity doesn't allow for matter to reach speeds greater than C. While general relativity, which btw overrides special relativity, does. I can't remember exactly how or why, I'll have to look that up.


Besides, once we are able to harness anti-matter reactors, we'll be able to go....very fast. Anti-matter colliding with matter results in a 100% conversion of mass to energy. Did you know that a uranium bomb only manages a measley 1%?

 

[Razor]

Actually, you're wrong. Special relativity doesn't allow for matter to reach speeds greater than C. While general relativity, which btw overrides special relativity, does. I can't remember exactly how or why, I'll have to look that up.


Besides, once we are able to harness anti-matter reactors, we'll be able to go....very fast. Anti-matter colliding with matter results in a 100% conversion of mass to energy. Did you know that a uranium bomb only manages a measley 1%?

As i keep telling my imaginary friend, all of these discussions will be completely pointless when someone just manages to make a hyperdrive, there are lots of Star Wars books out there that give plans for it. Has no one had the common sense to build it?

 

[Death.Trap]

As i keep telling my imaginary friend, all of these discussions will be completely pointless when someone just manages to make a hyperdrive, there are lots of Star Wars books out there that give plans for it. Has no one had the common sense to build it?

:E

Unfourtanetly, those planse entail something like an outline of a naboo starfighter, and then it shows a round thing inside the starships structure labeled "Ant-gravity device."


If Lucas wants us to build one anytime soon he's gonna have to be a little more detailed than that. :thumbs: