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Mike Okuda Writes About Virtuality's Phaeton & Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
09/June/2009 10:10 PM Filed in: Articles
Courtesy Of Doug Drexler’s blog (CG supervisor for the Virtuality TV Movie), The Drex Files, graphic designer and tech consultant Mike Okuda writes about nuclear pulse propulsion and Virtuality’s ship Phaeton.
/ Zefram Cochrane notwithstanding, most fans know that real scientists have very little idea how faster-than-light “warp drive” or “hyperdrive,” could actually work, or even if they’re possible. A lot of slower-than-light technologies seen in stories and films for reaching the stars are more grounded in scientific reality, like lightsails, ramscoops, and generation ships. Unfortunately, most of them involve extremely long travel times, miniscule payloads, or near-magical breakthroughs in engineering. (Sometimes all three!) Present-day rockets are amazing machines, but they have only a tiny fraction of the performance that would be needed to travel to the stars on anything approaching a human timescale.
But there was one incredibly audacious proposal for a propulsion system, using (relatively) off-the-shelf technology that would have been able to send massive payloads to the outer planets, and maybe even to nearby stars. Nuclear pulse propulsion. /
Full Article:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/mike-okuda-the-phaeton-and-nuclear-pulse-propulsion/
/ Zefram Cochrane notwithstanding, most fans know that real scientists have very little idea how faster-than-light “warp drive” or “hyperdrive,” could actually work, or even if they’re possible. A lot of slower-than-light technologies seen in stories and films for reaching the stars are more grounded in scientific reality, like lightsails, ramscoops, and generation ships. Unfortunately, most of them involve extremely long travel times, miniscule payloads, or near-magical breakthroughs in engineering. (Sometimes all three!) Present-day rockets are amazing machines, but they have only a tiny fraction of the performance that would be needed to travel to the stars on anything approaching a human timescale.
But there was one incredibly audacious proposal for a propulsion system, using (relatively) off-the-shelf technology that would have been able to send massive payloads to the outer planets, and maybe even to nearby stars. Nuclear pulse propulsion. /
Full Article:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/mike-okuda-the-phaeton-and-nuclear-pulse-propulsion/
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