Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] will humans be replaced

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

ah, ok, well, i went by 
what discovery channel talked about

it talked about using Anti-Matter to 
help push us faster

I don't remember hearing anything on 
Photon propellant

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> Anti-matter is not the key to travelling across this universe. Too much
> Star Trek has distored people's ideas of space travel. Photon propellant
> would be efficent if we had anti-matter, which is naturally abundant in
> our universe. However, we have to make it, which requires a lot of effort
> and energy.
> 
> The key to successful long distance travel is magnetics. Magnetic fields
> could, one day, allow us to open up holes between two points in space and
> simply jump between them. This topic can be found in many Sci-Fi books,
> most notably _A Wrinkle in Time_. They called it a tesseract. "Event
> Horizon" also discussed this topic.
> 
> Traveling in a straight line is inefficent and a horrific waste of
> resources. We don't even know for sure if matter can go faster than the
> speed of light. I'm not a physist, though.
> 
> Regards,
> Neil Bradshaw	
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