Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction.
It's coming back around NTP is going to make a comeback. My first calculator was a texas instruments non scientific and it was much better than my slide rule. And just to add my small contribution how about we use the heat from the nuclear thermal reactor to run a Stirling engine or engines to generate power and charge batteries. The Chinese have just successfully tested a large sterling power generator in space. Geoff is not my favourite Author but NTP does make sense. 😎👍
Speaking of electric engines, I should calculate what it would take to launch a Vasmir ship into space while hauling a several hundred kilometer drop cord for power.
The "tumbling pigeon" approach to make artificial gravity probably isn't what most people imagine. I like it though and it gets around some it the engineering problems a separately rotating centrifuge habitat might introduce.
Hope to God all you smart people realize these goals, for all man kind but we America's will enjoy these goals first, before any others world government, America's must show the world 🌎 how it's done
We're all dressed up and no where to go! Risk avoidance is serious business; this is where I wonder how people conflict on approaching Space. The argument of cost, safety & goals is even more stupefying. Hell, we're doing better on spending priorities (remember the $millions spent on developing a pen to work in zero-g?)! I enjoy these talks, but how do we go from drawing board to outer space on talk? I'm not a trained astronaut, physicist or economist... but it seems these are the projects that will do more for any country, compared to giving out a IMF humanitarian loan. I'm not against social programs or charities, I'm against 'passing the buck'. If we can build another Los Angeles class submarine or do a bail out on Wall Street, the human race can go to Mars! We'd be better off doing something that makes us do the extraordinary. If I had the check book, I'd do the shopping myself and put my ass on that seat! My money & my life: just because I'm tired of sitting around 'waiting' for the good fairy to give us a spaceship that will win the consensus!
Tom Cotter so true eh? you cant please everyone . this is common knowledge that is apparently overlooked by NASA..... i guess we need a private company or another space agency to see the benefits of getting to mars before NASA.
NTRs are fairly low thrust so and those ships will never land on a body so it makes sense to build them light as they only need to withstand an acceleration of roughly 1/5 of earth's gravity.
gheeze i thought he was going to start off with a joke like first thing i did with my calculator was make it say "hello"... boy am i out of this guys league.
@@duckslayer92 Just seeing your replay to my 10 year old comment, which you made 6 years after. I'm curious why would you refrain from having confidence in Russian based nuclear tech? Russia has some of the best scientist on the planet or did you just finish watching the HBO special documentary like movie Chernobyl which came out around 2019 and are incredibly ignorant on the topic at large?
@@williamcase426 Well it is in space and while it might not blow up in the traditional sense I can imagine if the moderator system fails or improper use could case the reactor to over heat, which could lead to a melt down. however all rockets have fail point. Everyone involved would prefer rockets not to fail.
