Let's design a spaceship

**Norsefire** · 06-25-09, 10:28 PM

A spaceship to travel the galaxy! What will it need? What dangers will the crew face? What fuels will we use?

Let's roughly throw together a spaceship.

Ok, first order of business: propulsion. What's the best bet for fast and efficient propulsion? I like the nuclear propulsion and ion propulsion ideas best...but what about antimatter propulsion?

Life support?

Protection from radiation?

Artificial gravity?

Artificial habitats on board?

Self-sustainability?

What will we need? What will we do?

**GeoffP** · 06-25-09, 10:53 PM

You'll need lots of lawyers.

**thinking** · 06-25-09, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by GeoffP

You'll need lots of lawyers.

why ?

**thinking** · 06-25-09, 11:18 PM

[QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Norsefire

A spaceship to travel the galaxy! What will it need?

husband and wife both on the ball and intelligent

at least for me

What dangers will the crew face?

many forms of energy

What fuels will we use?

plasma

Let's roughly throw together a spaceship.

Ok, first order of business: propulsion. What's the best bet for fast and efficient propulsion? I like the nuclear propulsion and ion propulsion ideas best...but what about antimatter propulsion?

Life support?

recycling

Protection from radiation?

plasma

Artificial gravity?

rotation

Artificial habitats on board?

none

all nutrients to the body , biochemical packets

Self-sustainability?

gather what is needed from the enviroment

What will we need?

soundness of mind and the explorer mind set

What will we do?

explore and enjoy

**PieAreSquared** · 06-25-09, 11:20 PM

Plastic Bobble head Jesus on the dashboard

**thinking** · 06-25-09, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by PieAreSquared

Plastic Bobble head Jesus on the dashboard

moving on

**Xylene** · 06-26-09, 12:06 AM

Holodeck--long journeys get boring, and a journey to another star gets reeeeallly boring.

**PieAreSquared** · 06-26-09, 12:14 AM

Plasma .. what kind??

**terrybrookman** · 06-26-09, 12:29 AM

We are already on a space ship!

**cosmictraveler** · 06-26-09, 12:54 AM

We won't need a space ship, we will need a stargate that would take us anywhere in the universe in a matter of seconds.

**thinking** · 06-26-09, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by cosmictraveler

We won't need a space ship, we will need a stargate that would take us anywhere in the universe in a matter of seconds.

now wouldn't that be gosh darn handy

but mean while in reality .....

lets build the space ship

**thinking** · 06-26-09, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by PieAreSquared

Plasma .. what kind??

of the cosmic plasma kind

of protons and electrons

**thinking** · 06-26-09, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by Xylene

Holodeck--long journeys get boring, and a journey to another star gets reeeeallly boring.

and on they way you see and experience

don't forget not only will you get closer to another star(s) but you will see them from a different perspective

and because of this perspective learn something new about stars and you won't know that until you examine the star three dimensionally up close

**PieAreSquared** · 06-26-09, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by thinking

of the cosmic plasma kind

of protons and electrons

doesn't this sort of conflict with your questions in this thread ??

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=94063

But as for the other entities like electrons, neutrons, photons and quarks I have strong doubts if they really exist in the real world and not just on paper.

now you want to take them on the cruise ??

**thinking** · 06-26-09, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by PieAreSquared

doesn't this sort of conflict with your questions in this thread ??

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=94063

But as for the other entities like electrons, neutrons, photons and quarks I have strong doubts if they really exist in the real world and not just on paper.

now you want to take them on the cruise ??

we have issues about reality it seems

I have responded

**PieAreSquared** · 06-26-09, 01:59 AM

Plasma is not the easiest thing to contain, if it were, we would be a lot further in being energy independent , they been trying to keep that genii in the bottle for quite some time.

goggle ITER

**Manimammal** · 06-26-09, 02:02 AM

Lets just stick to playing spaceship video games and pretend that is as real as it is going to get for the next few thousand years, until the robots do it for us.

**Dynamite Dan** · 06-27-09, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by Norsefire

Life support?
Air, will have to be stored in liquid form, this probably wont last for any length of time though, a few months at best, cant for the life of me think of any other ways of storing high levels of oxygen.

Protection from radiation?
Obviously Lead lined walls ore out of the question, due to the sheer cost of getting that amount of weight into space for assembly in the first place.
The earth uses a magnetic field to protect from solar radiation, maybe a small field could be generated around the craft to do the same job?

Artificial gravity?
Easy, put the craft into a gyroscopic spin.

Propulsion?
Ion Drive, not very powerful, but capable of extremely high speeds.

Artificial habitats on board?
Such as plants? hmm, this has just give me an idea about the oxygen problem, how many plants would it take to generate enough oxygen, given a sustainable source of sunlight, for a few crew members? this could be the oxygen problems over.

Self-sustainability?
Well, food is a main issue of course, so depending on how far you wish to travel, most things would have to be freeze dried, and re-hydrated, The source of the water, for drinking and re-hydrating food is a BIG problem, it could be possible to plan your journey so you fly into the tails of ice comets and collect the vapours from them, but i don't know how much water (if any) these contain.

What will we need? What will we do?
We will need, the entire global scientific and aerospace industry to come together, and work without budgets in mind.

Dan

**~~tuberculatious~~** · 06-27-09, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Norsefire

A spaceship to travel the galaxy! What will it need? What dangers will the crew face? What fuels will we use?

Let's roughly throw together a spaceship.

Ok, first order of business: propulsion. What's the best bet for fast and efficient propulsion? I like the nuclear propulsion and ion propulsion ideas best...but what about antimatter propulsion?

Life support?

Protection from radiation?

Artificial gravity?

Artificial habitats on board?

Self-sustainability?

What will we need? What will we do?

zero gravity sex cages.

**Nasor** · 06-27-09, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Dynamite Dan

Air, will have to be stored in liquid form, this probably wont last for any length of time though, a few months at best, cant for the life of me think of any other ways of storing high levels of oxygen.

You would probably carry a limited amount of oxygen, and use chemical engineering to convert the CO2 back into oxygen and carbon.