NASA Funds Interstellar Flight System, 7 Other Wild Space Tech Ideas

NASA has funded eight advanced-technology concepts that agency officials believe could help transform space science and exploration.

The high-risk, high-reward ideas — which received grants under Phase 2 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program — include a possible way to induce a hibernation-like state in Mars-bound astronauts and a proposal to blast tiny spacecraft between the stars using powerful lasers.

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They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

mollwollfumble said:

They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

lucky you

I sent them one idea and was woken in the early hours by the police breaking down my front door

within our limits a large cube ship built by a 3D printer in orbit is the way to go

wookiemeister said:

I sent them one idea and was woken in the early hours by the police breaking down my front door

That made me choke on my beer :)

mollwollfumble said:

They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

How did that work ?, sounds interesting

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

How did that work ?, sounds interesting

Did your idea start “you just…”.

wookiemeister said:

within our limits a large cube ship built by a 3D printer in orbit is the way to go

The Borg do it that way.

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

How did that work ?, sounds interesting

I recon that sounds like it could work, waste disposal could be a difficult problem?

bob(from black rock) said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

They turned down my idea of developing an artificial placenta for thousand-year-long space voyages. Perhaps it wasn’t wild enough.

How did that work ?, sounds interesting

I recon that sounds like it could work, waste disposal could be a difficult problem?

I suppose you could recycle most of it and freeze dry and compact the rest.
I wonder if the person connected to the artificial placenta is in almost a state of hibernation and resources are reduced.

Cymek said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Cymek said:

How did that work ?, sounds interesting

I recon that sounds like it could work, waste disposal could be a difficult problem?

I suppose you could recycle most of it and freeze dry and compact the rest.
I wonder if the person connected to the artificial placenta is in almost a state of hibernation and resources are reduced.

Isn’t that called suspended animation?

bob(from black rock) said:

Cymek said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I recon that sounds like it could work, waste disposal could be a difficult problem?

I suppose you could recycle most of it and freeze dry and compact the rest.
I wonder if the person connected to the artificial placenta is in almost a state of hibernation and resources are reduced.

Isn’t that called suspended animation?

Pretty much I think

mollwollfumble said:

wookiemeister said:

within our limits a large cube ship built by a 3D printer in orbit is the way to go

The Borg do it that way.

the Borg have had their day

last time they showed their face in this quadrant the beamed me on board and within half an hour the entire ship was hamstring with Liquid nails oozing from every important looking orifice and fragile things half snapped off and fucked

they’ve sent a letter of complaint to the federation and have vowed never to return

wookiemeister said:

mollwollfumble said:

wookiemeister said:

within our limits a large cube ship built by a 3D printer in orbit is the way to go

The Borg do it that way.

the Borg have had their day

last time they showed their face in this quadrant the beamed me on board and within half an hour the entire ship was hamstring with Liquid nails oozing from every important looking orifice and fragile things half snapped off and fucked

they’ve sent a letter of complaint to the federation and have vowed never to return

giggle

:)