A NASA official may have made a 35-million-mile slip of the tongue.
The director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California casually let slip mention of the 100-Year Starship recently, a new program funded by the super-secret government agency, DARPA. In a talk at San Francisco's Long Conversation conference, Simon “Pete” Worden said DARPA has $1M to spend, plus another $100,000 from NASA itself, for the program, which will initially develop a new kind of propulsion engine that will take us to Mars or beyond.
There's only one problem: The astronauts won't come back.
The 100-year ship would leave Earth with the intention of colonizing a planet, but it would likely be a one-way trip because of the time it takes to travel 35 million miles. That’s a daunting prospect, partly because of the ethical dilemma, and partly because it may be the only recourse.
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Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
New hope for the Astro door gunner program, now that the Space Shuttle is taking its last flight
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Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
Ya beat me to it, RgrOkelly, was gonna ask where I can find info on Door-Gunner slots that are open!!
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Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
I'm getting annoyed at our political system. I'll go.
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One of these days I'll start off slow...
Duty a mountain; Death a feather.
One of these days I'll start off slow...
Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
I was going to suggest we send some politicians instead, but the hippies would bitch about polluting space.....GoldCoast wrote:I'm getting annoyed at our political system. I'll go.
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124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
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Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
A leader should lead, right ?
I vote for slap-Obama to be on board the first flight...........never to return again.
I vote for slap-Obama to be on board the first flight...........never to return again.
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Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
Yeah, but then he would have a legacy.RANGER513 wrote:A leader should lead, right ?
I vote for slap-Obama to be on board the first flight...........never to return again.
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Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
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Panem Et Circenses
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Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
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"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
Re: Is There a Secret NASA Starship Program ?
Could very well spark the War of the Worlds scenario, i'd prefer my Zombie apocalypse scenario.Lunch wrote:And for the love of humanity- he would be representing us on strange new worlds where no man has gone before. First impressions can be a bitch.
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B/1/118 Inf, 218th BCT Afghan 07
I'm not stupid, I'm crazy...there is a difference.