Let's hear your cheap launch strategies

the solution is tiny.

why send large items into space?

if space ships ever do arrive on earth, I suspect they will be smaller than lady bugs.
nano-tech devices will rule. why send humans? imagine launching 1 gram payloads from high altitude balloons.
 
quarky said:
the solution is tiny.

why send large items into space?

if space ships ever do arrive on earth, I suspect they will be smaller than lady bugs.
nano-tech devices will rule. why send humans? imagine launching 1 gram payloads from high altitude balloons.
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You mean like this:
jimbob said:
OK, this has given me an idea for an implausible launch strategy.

To get to the stars,why not do a "fantastic voyage" and then fire the resulting scientists out of a synchrotron?

I admit that there are technological hurdles, but hey...
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forgive me, jim bob. I didn't know about the fantastic voyage. I was confused by your statement, frankly, because of a paucity of american pop culture knowledge.

but now i get it.


regardless, I suspect that space exploration by earth-humans is so far off in the future, that we may as well concentrate on genetic manipulations.
we would engineer a human to accomodate the mission.

perhaps just sperm and eggs.


long space journeys need people that are used to being immobile...not arnold-stalone types. stephen hawking types. with no legs. or smaller.

space exploration, with humans in a ship, is the woo of science.

its also the excuse of endless growth capatalism:
that we aren't in a closed system here on earth, because our destiny is beyond our solar system. manifest destiny, and what not.

I wonder what % of people here believe that we will ever populate other planets?

I doubt if another human will ever step on the moon.

Is this too negatory?
 
RecoveringYuppy said:
Advocating an SE is about like advocating building the Time Tunnel. Until some of the necessary breakthroughs occur it's pointless to "advocate" it.
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Damn, that was my cheap launch strategy - build a time tunnel, which would transport the payload back in time a week, at which time the earth would have been in a different position, neatly depositing the payload in empty space.

My second choice is an anti-gravity tunnel, that punches the gravity well inside out, "dropping" the payload into space.

Third, a transporter.

The details are left as an exercise for the reader...
 
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I advocate researching the Black Arts. Don't even try to tell me that there isn't a powerful wizard somewhere who could lick this problem in a heartbeat. ;)

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