TARS: Im Grunde genommen ein starkes Segel in den Weltraum mit winzigen Sonden an jedem Ende schicken. Die Sonne dreht es über Jahre hinweg und baut Geschwindigkeit auf. Sobald Sie schnell genug genug sind, geben Sie die Sonden frei. Wenn sie erfolgreich sind, schießen sie mit etwa 0,3% der Lichtgeschwindigkeit ab
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It exits the solar system with a speed of 40km/s. That’s only 0.01% speed of light.
If nothing else, it could be a great way to test those microchip probes in practice. And even if the resulting velocity isn’t really enough for an interstellar mission, there are plenty of use places in the solar system where these could be useful.
Ok, so you fling an CPU into space…now what? Not sure how you are going to practically power and communicate with something that small at distance.
Might as well make it a nearly molten blob of plutonium as an IR source and even then it’s probably too small to track as a tracer.
While quite underpowered for an interstellar mission, it would only take like 30 days to reach Eris at 0,01c. Very useful for an affordable study of the solar system, very useful to study the types of probes that would actually embark on an interstellar journey, akin to *Breakthrough Starshot*.
Edit: It would take seven years at 0,0001c. Still not useless, especially at the cost.
Good luck aiming this system at anything in particular.
video was almost painful to even skim, too much poetry/philosophy/new age or whatever. Idea is interesting, and it kinda based on real observations (there are asteroids which are turning faster and faster until the break up) though I’ve tried to read the paper and even had hard time to even see numbers on g-forces on payload before launch, for example, or how many revolutions per second a realistic system will make per second.
also it has some passages on tumbling, but i don’t know, proposed form is not looking too stable.
We should honestly restart Project Orion.
Nuke technology, Materials, Computers have advanced a ton since it was first proposed.
Only thing holding it back is the no nukes in space treaty.
Otherwise we could send off multiple unmanned crafts at 10% the speed of light
I’ve done some preliminary thinking about this concept in the past. I think you might be able to charge up each end with positive and negative charges respectively and use the static attraction as a supplement to tensile strength.