V - - - ger reaches the edge of our solar system

[KRAIT]

Isn't there a next one planned? I think the next one should have some sort of a rechargeable power source.

All these cosmic rays hitting the spacecraft should somehow be harnessed into energy. In space you are not limited by weight, just need to give the initial heave ho and the object will keep going.

Also how about a generational crew this time? Someone to maintain the ship. People who leave Earth to colonize space.

As far as rechargeable one is considered, you don't know which type of radiation it experiences, so you can't apply any material on its surface or anything to generate energy. Another thing is if we can make 100% efficient engine and 0% loss of fuel by recycling...which is impossible...law of thermodynamics....

As far as colony of people are concerned, it takes hell lot of time to reach astronomical distance that we can't possibly reach, then many factors counts in, physical, mental, etc states of the travelers, oxygen, food and water supply.

There are few good movies on how it feels when people go out to distant space.

 

[Wright]

NASA is nothing compared to what it used to be.

The sent a man to the moon without computers!

 

[TruthSeeker]

NASA is nothing compared to what it used to be.

The sent a man to the moon without computers!

Well, that is certainly an exaggeration! All of NASA's space vehicles, manned and unmanned, are controlled by computers. How could it possibly be otherwise?? Note to youngsters: the iPad is NOT the first computer invented and produced by mankind! I used a time-shared computer at my USA college in 1963. I used the Internet on my personal computer in my office at a major US corporate R&D laboratory in 1976!!!

 

[Pakistanisage]

Who do you think "they" is????

I heard " THEY " was a Vietnamese-American Troll.

 

[W.11]

hope in our life time there is a space ship developed to transit us to the new planet, gotta be so exciting

 

[fallstuff]

I remembered when Voyager 1 was sending back the pics of Saturn rings. That was time magazine cover issue.

Wow, it has been a while !!

 

[TruthSeeker]

I remembered when Voyager 1 was sending back the pics of Saturn rings. That was time magazine cover issue.

Wow, it has been a while !!

Yes!! and remember when the crew of the USS Enterprise had to convince it that they were agents of its Creator and it should shut its self down!!! Thankfully, Captain Kirk and his crew prevailed!!!!

 

[rubyjackass]

Well, that is certainly an exaggeration! All of NASA's space vehicles, manned and unmanned, are controlled by computers. How could it possibly be otherwise?? Note to youngsters: the iPad is NOT the first computer invented and produced by mankind! I used a time-shared computer at my USA college in 1963. I used the Internet on my personal computer in my office at a major US corporate R&D laboratory in 1976!!!

OMG!! How old are you?!

 

[TruthSeeker]

OMG!! How old are you?!

I am 66, soon to be 67.

The Corporate R & D laboratory that I worked in was on the ARPANET starting in 1974. I received my first personal computer, hooked up to the ARPANET and our internal Corporate internet, in the spring of 1976. By 1978 my company's R & D labs in the USA, England and Japan were linked together over our internet with over 5,000 personal computers, as well as to any ARPANET terminals that were online.

 

[fallstuff]

I am 66, soon to be 67.

The Corporate R & D laboratory that I worked in was on the ARPANET starting in 1974. I received my first personal computer, hooked up to the ARPANET and our internal Corporate internet, in the spring of 1976. By 1978 my company's R & D labs in the USA, England and Japan were linked together over our internet with over 5,000 personal computers, as well as to any ARPANET terminals that were online.

Its a great to read about the baby steps of the Internet !!

 

[rubyjackass]

I am 66, soon to be 67.

The Corporate R & D laboratory that I worked in was on the ARPANET starting in 1974. I received my first personal computer, hooked up to the ARPANET and our internal Corporate internet, in the spring of 1976. By 1978 my company's R & D labs in the USA, England and Japan were linked together over our internet with over 5,000 personal computers, as well as to any ARPANET terminals that were online.

Wow! Interesting history. US was decades ahead of us at that time. At least now it is years. So those days there were any 'internet' kind of applications? Apart from mail of course.

And let me guess your company.
Bell Labs
or
IBM

 

[Awesome]

Well, that is certainly an exaggeration! All of NASA's space vehicles, manned and unmanned, are controlled by computers. How could it possibly be otherwise?? Note to youngsters: the iPad is NOT the first computer invented and produced by mankind! I used a time-shared computer at my USA college in 1963. I used the Internet on my personal computer in my office at a major US corporate R&D laboratory in 1976!!!

With hard drives the size of a car and printers with hydraulic pumps

That's the kind of nostalgia my father runs by me when talking about his early professional days in Karachi.

The ipad of yesterday could out do the super computers of that time.

 

[Don Jaguar]

Wow! Interesting history. US was decades ahead of us at that time. At least now it is years. So those days there were any 'internet' kind of applications? Apart from mail of course.

And let me guess your company.
Bell Labs
or
IBM

The first ever website created was created on 25 March 1985.

Here is the link of it.

Symbolics.com - The first and oldest .com on the Internet

And here is the list of some oldest websites.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16= 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
16= 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
42= 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73= 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
73= 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76= 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
76= 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

 

[Awesome]

As far as rechargeable one is considered, you don't know which type of radiation it experiences, so you can't apply any material on its surface or anything to generate energy. Another thing is if we can make 100% efficient engine and 0% loss of fuel by recycling...which is impossible...law of thermodynamics....

As far as colony of people are concerned, it takes hell lot of time to reach astronomical distance that we can't possibly reach, then many factors counts in, physical, mental, etc states of the travelers, oxygen, food and water supply.

There are few good movies on how it feels when people go out to distant space.

Well with Generational we are talking about families being on board the ship. The parents teaching their children and the children growing up to take over the jobs of their parents.

A crew of maybe 100 people, with on board grown food, CO2 scrubbers, power generated through solar, radiation and some form of a nuclear reactor a mission can be designed to last out a few hundred years and from there the crew can take the mission further.


I understand that its hard that's why its not been attempted but if a repeat attempt from 1977 till now has to be made it should be done with people.

 

[W.11]