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Quote: According to Shawyer's calculations, the EM Drive could be so efficient that it could power us to Mars in just 70 days.
If it can be imagined it can be done...or something to that effect.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Now if only astronauts could withstand being subjected to solar and cosmic radiation for 140 days!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Would it help if you moved parallel with the planet you lifted off from -- so that you'd always have your ass covered by it blocking the sun?  A sort of spiral move increasing the radius but keeping the overall trajectory aligned with the planet. And then hijacking the next trajectory when you reach the next planet so that there is always something big covering your ass.
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That seems like it would work for as long as you are within the planet's umbra, but as soon as you are any real distance from the planet you'd be exposed. The Earth's umbra extends a few hundred thousand miles, but Mars is millions of miles away, not thousands.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Then we need to genetically engineer ourselves to be resistant to radiation.
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Yes, and the only way to do that is to stop vaccinating our children. 
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Or build the proper shielding...
Seems like we could reflectively shield it a bit. Maybe that stuff they put in the window of a mircrowave oven 
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Or engineer a pseudo-human to take the trip and start a colony... Perhaps that's what the artificial intelligence projects are all about. Couple an AI computer to a robotic, self driving device, shoot it off to Mars. Viola! Martians. 
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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The radiation will take care of the genetic engineering
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If we can survive pollution, pesticides, herbicides and such like a little radiation don't seem like much.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Maybe we should have the ships piloted by cockroaches!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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They run our country why not try ships?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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It probably creates tears in the space-time continuum and we'll be restricted to speeds below Warp 6. 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I'm literally seeing microwaves bouncing now.
The kind of microwave you use to warm up your leftover pizza 
I'm not sure if pizza is on the space approved foods list of NASA though.
It better be, pizza == life.
I like pizza.
Pizza.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm not sure if pizza is on the space approved foods list of NASA though.
It better be, pizza == life.
I would think that the first problem would be to get the pizza delivery guy through astronaut training. I doubt that they could deliver it within 30 minutes, though.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the first problem would be to get the pizza delivery guy through astronaut training
Get some frozen pizza. You have plenty of microwaves to heat and eat them later! 
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FROZEN pizza?! That is an abomination in the sight of <insert your favourite deity here>!
BURN THE HERETIC!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The Great Lord Cthulhu and I agree, but it's still better than no pizza at all
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c'throd vulgtlagln Cthulu lw'nafh shogg-ogg ah'nnn gof'nn pizza hlirgh y'hah uaaah uaaah
(We tremble before and pray to the great Cthulu in the dream of the realm of darkness to protect his children from this pizza heretic. Amen)
R'lyehian - CthulhuWiki[^]
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y'hah 
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NOW the problem is a really good frozen pizza!
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Quote: In case you've missed the hype, the EM Drive, or Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British inventor Roger Shawyer back in 1999.
I wonder how long it will be before the phrase "British inventor Roger Shawyer" is replaced with other things.
Probably just after final, ultimate, incontestable proof that it works.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...I'd tell you a Construction joke, but I'm still working on it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought that! 
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