Nasa's new and improved ANTI-MATTER space ship

In summary, the researchers at NASA believe that antimatter propulsion may be the future of space travel. They are working on creating particles of antimatter and storing them for use in spacecraft. They believe that this technology may one day be able to take humans to Mars.
  • #36
batboy said:
I thought I read somewhere we have enough to heat a cup coffee.

In the movie Apollo 13 (which was based on reality) didn't they say that it only had enough power left to power the coffee maker for 8(?) hours? And then they managed to use gravity to their advantage and get it back :)

So it sounds feasible, not now but in the future... But it would be another thing to worry that terrorists might get a hold of. With destructive technology like nuclear weapons and stuff, every country has to be more mature about that sort of stuff
 
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  • #37
That comment in Apollo 13 was about electricity for powering their electronics. The energy released by their engines in course correction burns was, of course, many many many orders of magnitude larger than that.
 
  • #38
russ_watters said:
That comment in Apollo 13 was about electricity for powering their electronics. The energy released by their engines in course correction burns was, of course, many many many orders of magnitude larger than that.

oopsie.:rolleyes:
 
  • #39
well we built cars, planes, and made electricity. All things are possible! The question you should be asking is will the human race survive long enough to figure it out, or will we just make bombs out of it, and sell it to people that hate us, so they can fulfill there ultimate goal of making jesus come back? Jesus was cool, he was the only white guy in the desert:-)
 

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