To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
I saw this one today on Kickstarter. Shame it won't get funded, but what they say looks quite interesting. I'm at work currently, so don't have much time to look it up.
What do you say about it?
I say that's the coolest use of kickstarter ever... It says they reached their funding goal, so where's my electric plasma spaceship?
<img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_razz.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />
But I also think it's a disgrace that concepts like this actually have to go to kickstarter for money... SHAME ON YOU WORLD GOVERNMENTS! SHAME!
It's reminded me of another electric plasma propulsion system, the VASIMR engine which has been in development since... wait for it... the freaking 70s!
Can we stop building tanks and bombs for 5 minutes and give some money towards space exploration? Even diverting a tiny fraction of the US defense budget would propel... (see what I did there?) development of this tech forward immeasurably.
This baby is supposed to have the potential to cut travel time for stuff like Mars missions from 2 years to 5 months!
I haven't heard anything about VASIMR in a while though, there was some live testing a year or two ago and it looked promising... There is a testbed launch launch to ISS scheduled for 2015... which is both good and as I said earlier, somewhat disgraceful that it's taken this long.
It's generally thought to be unsuitable for ground launches... which is good imo as this will encourage development of in-orbit construction concepts and we all know that's how you build starships lol.
Electric plasma propulsion is the next big step imo, it's the gateway to finally opening up the solar system to proper human exploration.
I hope that company that was seriously proposing asteroid mining are looking at this tech...
Latest Post: High Protein Chia Seed Recipes That Are Perfect for Tiffin Our newest member: Dizaynersk_paSn Recent Posts Unread Posts
