Recent content by merovingian

Not to mention the whole expansion of the universe issue, difficult to calculate you think? If anyone is puzzled by my last post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail" , for example is don't dependent on an on board propulsion system. I also hear that it maybe possible to sling shot a ship...

Yeah, the fuel part is very interesting but it assumes that the propulsion device is on board the ship. Not that we can really go ANYWHERE anyway.

OMG! We can go anywhere! This is sweet! Thank you. Did you read about the self replicating probes?

You're a pimp! Thanks dude! =) .707c Wow, that's pretty fast. Interesting, so this is probably pretty hard to figure out but... Let's say your 20 years old and you expect to live till your 70 in space, how far would you get at a constant rate of acceleration of 1G over the course of 50 years...

Let's see if I can do better this time around. There is a star 5 light years from earth. At what speed does the ship need to be traveling to get there in five years relative to the ship? In otherwords, you're going to be in a ship and you're going to go a constant speed and cover 5 light years...

Of course not, hmm, I need time to put together a more clear picture here.

Yeah, this is an error but if it helps anyone with their HW, I could care less. I'm not going to pretend I know what I'm talking about because I cannot put down the mathmatical proof needed to properly communicate my perception. Here is what I think... When a proton leaves the sun and...

These are the problems... 1. At 1G of acceleration, how long does it take to reach the speed of light (299 792 458 m / s) relative to the object accelerating? Obviously it never reaches the speed of light relative to the Earth but I'm also curious what this speed is relative to us. 2. This...