Comments on: NASA Ames’ Worden reveals DARPA-funded ‘Hundred Year Starship’ program http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program Accelerating Intelligence Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Robert Lucas http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-13563 Robert Lucas Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:29 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-13563 Could you, instead of sending someone to Mars forever, which is fraught with problems, send them for 10 or 15 years, which is long enough for a desert the size of a planet, then if another Mars window opens up bring them home after that. Depends on Mars orbit then. They might be mad by then, we might not want them back. Could you, instead of sending someone to Mars forever, which is fraught with problems, send them for 10 or 15 years, which is long enough for a desert the size of a planet, then if another Mars window opens up bring them home after that. Depends on Mars orbit then. They might be mad by then, we might not want them back.

]]> By: Robert Lucas http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-13562 Robert Lucas Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:56:25 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-13562 I cab see an ion drive moving at a fraction of the speed of light getting to a near star in one man's lifetime. When more infrastructure is there Mars becomes less of a hurdle to get to, but at the moment we have none. I cab see an ion drive moving at a fraction of the speed of light getting to a near star in one man’s lifetime. When more infrastructure is there Mars becomes less of a hurdle to get to, but at the moment we have none.

]]> By: CERN physicists trap antimatter for 1,000 seconds « New science news http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-3642 CERN physicists trap antimatter for 1,000 seconds « New science news Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:48:58 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-3642 [...] like the Hundred Year Starship! Sign me [...] [...] like the Hundred Year Starship! Sign me [...]

]]> By: CERN physicists trap antimatter for 1,000 seconds | KurzweilAI http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-3640 CERN physicists trap antimatter for 1,000 seconds | KurzweilAI Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:38:20 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-3640 [...] could be used for propulsion in an interplanetary or interstellar spaceship.”Cool, like the Hundred Year Starship! Sign me up.Ref.: G. B. Andresen, et al., Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds, Nature [...] [...] could be used for propulsion in an interplanetary or interstellar spaceship.”Cool, like the Hundred Year Starship! Sign me up.Ref.: G. B. Andresen, et al., Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds, Nature [...]

]]> By: The Interstellar Tool Builders http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-2732 The Interstellar Tool Builders Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:17:28 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-2732 [...] (starship_aldiss) [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhunen%E2%80%93Lo%C3%A8ve_theorem [3]: http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program [4]: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tzf_img_post.jpg (tzf_img_post) [5]: [...] [...] (starship_aldiss) [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhunen%E2%80%93Lo%C3%A8ve_theorem [3]: http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program [4]: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tzf_img_post.jpg (tzf_img_post) [5]: [...]

]]> By: Links We’re Reading – October 18 – 23, 2010 – Loudoun Progress http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-2693 Links We’re Reading – October 18 – 23, 2010 – Loudoun Progress Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:33:05 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-2693 [...] DARPA Funded Hundred-Year Starship Program - The US Government is investing in a long-range plan to create the capacity to colonize other planets. I love it. [...] [...] DARPA Funded Hundred-Year Starship Program – The US Government is investing in a long-range plan to create the capacity to colonize other planets. I love it. [...]

]]> By: Editor http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-1192 Editor Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:27:28 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-1192 Also see: MSNBC: <a href="http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/26/5355604-billionaires-wanted-for-starship-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Billionaires wanted for starship plan</a> Huffington Post: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/100-year-starship-program_n_773758.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">'Hundred-Year Starship' Would Send Space Explorers On One-Way Mission To Mars</a> Also see:

MSNBC: Billionaires wanted for starship plan

Huffington Post: ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ Would Send Space Explorers On One-Way Mission To Mars

]]> By: Editor http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program/comment-page-1#comment-1186 Editor Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:13:32 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=100544#comment-1186 A video with the discussion between Pete Worden and Peter Schwartz and podcast posted by Long Now Foundation 10/28/2010. A video with the discussion between Pete Worden and Peter Schwartz and podcast posted by Long Now Foundation 10/28/2010.

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