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I first read about the hyperdrive through the scotsman article. Otherwise I'm not at all familiar with it.

..... hyperdrive motors and ion propulsion. Seems we will get there one day.


Great read riddla, thankyou :icon14:

riddla wrote:On a semi-related note, Euros just tested an improved ion drive:

http://www.physorg.com/news9786.html

Funny thing, wonder why it took so long to decide to move the grids farther away from each other. I thought about that as I was reading about the particles hitting the second grid and deteriorating it. They may be super educated scientists and shit, but sometimes I wonder about their common sense.

True, true. Not likely to change anytime soon I'm sure.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm fascinated by what's been/being done. It's amazing. Just sometimes you could just slap the silly fuckers. I mean come on, forgetting a lens? Bet that poor bastard got fired over that shit.

Yup, was a while back.

riddla wrote:

scourge34 wrote:Yup, was a while back.

well, speaking of lenses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Spa ... wed_mirror

Ah well, I knew it was something with the lens. Btw, I remember watching one of the moon landings when I was a wee child.

riddla wrote:Anyone else here subscribe to the print magazine?

The article this week on Hyperdrive for space travel is quite excellent.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fun ... 1.200.html

Article is from this issue.

interesting stuff indeed. they didn't say where the energy to make this happen is supposed to come from, but i guess by the time anything actually gets built we'll have fusion reactors that run off our own faeces

w3rd

very cool - paradigm shift round the corner anyone?

Aliens? That thread was a few days ago.

I'll be sure to tell the next alien I see that you think quite highly of them.

Just the way I like it.