tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187898052011-04-22T00:05:44.885-04:00If it aint here, how do you know it didn't happen?ArtificialHumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502744093928447273noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18789805.post-1131548726996821292005-11-09T09:11:00.000-05:002006-04-22T21:41:09.250-04:00Many people have speculated on making trips to other planets and on how long it will be before we actually get there.<br /><br />I believe space travel is not as hard as everyone makes it out to be.<br /><br />Most of the ideas and technology were designed as far back as 1952. One of the most promising designs was a space station proposed by a scientist named von Braun.<br /><br /><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://users.erols.com/telescope/SpaceFlights/images/vonbraun_wheel_m.jpg" width="250" hspace="0" border="0" align="left">von Braun's space station illustrated on left in orbit around a planet, but this is a short view of the station's possibilities. If you stack up 4 or 5 of them and mount them on the front end of a rocket, you can make a space ship able to travel between planets.<br /><br />The advantage of this design is that a trip lasting between 6 and 7 months can be done while it's entire crew experiences Earth or Mars like gravity. The G force experienced depends on how fast the station spins on it's axis. So, if you are going to Mars, the rate of spin would gradually be reduced until the G force equals what you find on the Martian surface.<br /><br />Imagine this idea scaled up so that the station part can hold 500 crew members and the rocket part long enough to double as a barge able to carry all of the supplies to build a small city...<br /><br />The barge is made by constructing a skeletal frame around the rocket. The cargo will be mounted on the frame like snapping together a bunch of LEGO blocks..<br /><br />Both the station and rocket are so large they will spend their entire life in space as a shuttle system between planets.<br /><br />Now if you had a fleet of these ships moving between the planets, colonization would not be far behind. Just remember a guy named Columbus that made a similar voyage in 1492...<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.SpaceFlights.us">SpaceFlights</a> to see more about traveling to Mars and beyond.<br /><br />All movle and book rights to the subject covered in this article are reserved by me.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18789805-113154872699682129?l=thestrangesturlonearth.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ArtificialHumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502744093928447273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18789805.post-1131521041059931322005-11-09T02:24:00.000-05:002005-11-09T02:35:27.326-05:00It seems like everyone is getting on the BLOG bandwagon.<br /><br />If you have been on the internet long enough, you might find <a href="http://thestrangesturlonearth.blogspot.com/">TheStrangestURLonEarth</a>. This one belongs to me and I hope this one gets lots of mileage. Being so long, you might need to bring your walking stick...<br /><br />Well, since this is my first time here. Gonna keep the <a href="http://thestrangesturlonearth.blogspot.com/">TheStrangestURLonEarth</a> short.<br /><br />Look forward to posting all sorts of intriging stuff here, so stay tuned...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18789805-113152104105993132?l=thestrangesturlonearth.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ArtificialHumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502744093928447273noreply@blogger.com0