ShaneFalco
08-03-2014, 02:40 AM
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/1/5959637/nasa-cannae-drive-tests-have-promising-results
NASA has been testing new space travel technologies throughout its entire history, but the results of its latest experiment may be the most exciting yet — if they hold up. Earlier this week at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists with NASA's Eagleworks Laboratories in Houston, Texas, presented a paper indicating they had achieved a small amount of thrust from a container that had no traditional fuels, only microwaves, bouncing around inside it. If the results can be replicated reliably and scaled up — and that's a big "if," since NASA only produced them on a very small scale over a two-day period — they could ultimately result in ultra-light weight, ultra fast spacecraft that could carry humans to Mars in weeks instead of months, and to the nearest star system outside our own (Proxima Centurai) in just about 30 years.
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_31/598296/140802-warp_7ac124599dc77730706ad6abbaeb5d45.nbcnews-ux-600-440.jpg
ill see you ******s on Europa.
NASA has been testing new space travel technologies throughout its entire history, but the results of its latest experiment may be the most exciting yet — if they hold up. Earlier this week at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists with NASA's Eagleworks Laboratories in Houston, Texas, presented a paper indicating they had achieved a small amount of thrust from a container that had no traditional fuels, only microwaves, bouncing around inside it. If the results can be replicated reliably and scaled up — and that's a big "if," since NASA only produced them on a very small scale over a two-day period — they could ultimately result in ultra-light weight, ultra fast spacecraft that could carry humans to Mars in weeks instead of months, and to the nearest star system outside our own (Proxima Centurai) in just about 30 years.
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_31/598296/140802-warp_7ac124599dc77730706ad6abbaeb5d45.nbcnews-ux-600-440.jpg
ill see you ******s on Europa.