What is the purpose of poor people?

Red1966 said:

But you still refer to them as "poor". Interesting. So you apparently do not agree with Emerson.

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SmokeyDan said:

Wtf does that have to do with anything?

If we wanted to get there in a hurry, we'd put a rocket booster on it, sling shot it around Jupiter and then engage towards AC.

It would then be traveling significantly faster than Voyager 1.

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Harrekin said:

Considering its distance, and how much its had to fight our star's gravity, its our fastest human made object.

We have faster vehicles initially upon launch, but theyd be significantly slower than Voyager 1 at that distance.

Voyager 1's speed was based on a number of slingshots around the large outer planets that were made possible by a once in 175 year planetary alignment.

So I repeat, you aint got shit bro.

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SmokeyDan said:

We now have working ion drives.

The Russians almost perfected nuclear propulsion.

Yeah, I got shit.

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Harrekin said:

Ion drives are useless for atmospheric flight, and power usage increases squared with velocity.

Maximum velocity achieved by them is 11km/s, Voyager travels over 17km/s.

You still ain't got shit, retard.

Keep trying tho, its funny watching you flail.

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SmokeyDan said:

That's such bullshit.

Atmospheric flight?

We're talking about going to alpha centari.

Ion drives are perpetual acceleration, almost, eventually they peak out. Going to AC is exactly what they would be good for.

NASA projects ion drives in the future that could go 200,000 mph. Which is 89.2/kps

that's almost 5 times faster than Voyager.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...will-eventually-power-interplanetary-missions

"As a corollary, ion thrusters only work at all because of the near-vacuum of space; if there was any friction at all, like here on Earth, an ion drive would be useless. The good news, though, is that the (eventual) max speed of a spacecraft propelled by an ion drive is in the region of 200,000 miles per hour (321,000 kph)."

*edited for metric conversion error.

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SmokeyDan said:

We now have working ion drives.

The Russians almost perfected nuclear propulsion.

Yeah, I got shit.

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Red1966 said:

The ion drive only works submerged in gas or water, and is 2% efficient. We've had nuclear propulsion for decades

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Harrekin said:

Eventually we might have warp drives too.

We're talking current, dipshit.

And current ion drives are only good as thrusters, not propulsion.

Throw in a better, more compact power source and we can talk but aside from that...

You got nothing kid.

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SmokeyDan said:

Or the vacuum of space.

We already have one up there.

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