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| | | (...) Assume that a mile is 1.6 km, because dammit, you don't calculate these things in imperial (you'd need g in miles/sec. Ugh.) (...) All right. x == v0 * t + 0.5 * a * t x == 57.6e9 m v0 == 0 (this means I'm calculating from reaching orbit, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | try "anti-matter" fuel cells...(use your imagination here)...you could travel to mars and back on like 1 atom of it. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Wow, if you could get there that cheaply, then I suppose the speed wouldn't matter. --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) Ouch! Careful how you toss those puns around, some of us have negative reaction to the things. James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Sometimes they just escape by themselves. --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | | | (...) Theoretically, they could approach the speed of light, but I wouldn't want to hit a dust particle at that speed! (Not to mention that you would have to convert conventional matter into a more basic type of particle in order to go that fast. Of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well, you might be able to steer out of the way dust in time. --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Do you really 'speck us to believe that? -LFB (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Dag-burnit, is there no escape from this crazy atmosphere of punnery? --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) We'd have to be fuels to try. James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Does anyone fuel that these puns are getting annoying? Ummm, G, we'd better stop! --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, this happuns to be the corerect N, er... G for it. -John (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Ben Roller
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well if John has the N er G for it, then I say we continue. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't know - I don't think there's much potential there. James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | I try to avoid re-entry to this group(1) but the accelerating badness of these puns forces me to ask for a brake, aero or otherwise. I know it doesn't matter to the rest of you but I prefer quality to quantity. High specific impulses to post should (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I, for pun, kinda like them. Does anypun besides Larry dislike them? Jeff (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Aw, Larry's just got his i-on causing trouble...I'd say that it's only a stage, but I'd just be a booster if I did. -LFB. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Gah. Your capacity for a dirty pun has overwhelmed me. You might say I've been swept away... James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I'd better vacuum, then. --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) *That* job sucks. -John (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Lightsails. (...) You need a Ramjet-type magnetic field to safeguard you.. (...) No. I don't know where you got that idea, but all SF series on TV today are usually simply wrong when it comes to advenced theory explanation. So is Scientific (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | | | (...) more (...) I've heard of nanobots being able to construct atoms. Get a lot of those working in sync and you could construct a whole new me! (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) I think you just proved my point. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | | | (...) I read it in a magazine. Mike (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Jason Cordes
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| | | | | | (...) Oddly enough most of the technology being discussed here actually exists, even though many of you would debate that fact. I would like to share my thoughts on this matter, as well as addressing the poster's original question here. Flight Time (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | (...) By way of a purely information-gathering question, as opposed to some smart- alec sniping, I ask the following: Using this 1G acceleration, rather than having some last minute braking once you get to Mars, could you (or would you want to) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes, that was (assumed? implied? you choose) in the question. See Todd's solution, (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | | (...) smart- (...) once (...) 24- (...) Thanks for the clarification! (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) Huh? Standard rockets carry all the fuel they need -- no air required. That's mostly what we've been using way up there, from the start. (...) But rockets aren't about efficient production of energy, they are about the efficient *storage* and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah. But that's not the problem - 1G constant acceleration is utterly impossible with current tech. (...) Quite possibly. (...) And when the Shuttle solid-fuel-booster blows, you get what? I don't think any of us are going to forget that day (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Transit Time to Mars —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) No it doesn't. It takes a tremendous amount of CHEMICAL fuel, but you need to use something with a much higher specific impulse. The problem is that your chemical exhaust is going WAY too slow, hence you're not transferring much momentum. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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