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Originally Posted by Donncha Dennis
The first thing would be to gain the ability to get to the speeds we are talking about. But I wonder what kind of a ship could travel at such speeds and protect itself from radiation and space debris along the way, not like you can pit stop that sucker out there. What kind of shape/size/ship and protection could it have if your sending something that fast through space? A single chunk of floating rock will mess your day up big time. Will ships be more triangular like the bow of a ship with some sort of plate or shielding? If thats the case it will have to limit or work around what kind of cargo and how many humans it could hold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project
The book does cover space travel, has anyone here read it?
There are also some cool looking sci fi films coming out, the new Dune movie looks like it can be entertaining if you can try to get over the fact some blacks are now on aracus.
Raised by Wolves a Ridley Scott production looks good as well.
Foundation finally being made into a film based off the old isaac asimov book series. |
The Project Daedalus study had their ship propelled by nuclear fusion rockets fueled by compressed deuterium, a type of hydrogen, combined with helium-3. For protection against space debris, a wide, blunt "erosion shield" similar in appearance to the blunt heat shields on the back of space capsules to protect against the heat of atmospheric re-entry would be installed at the front of the spacecraft. The engines, fuel tanks, crew and instrument compartments would all be placed behind this large shield. It makes the vehicle rather ungainly in appearance unlike the fictional starship
Enterprise, but it would be functional and practical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
Another design study for a manned interstellar ship is the Enzmann starship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzmann_starship