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  Re: Mars in three days? NASA touts new propulsion system Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-02-24 11:37 +1100
    Re: Mars in three days? NASA touts new propulsion system "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 14:40 -0800

#556066 — Re: Mars in three days? NASA touts new propulsion system

On 23/02/2016 11:49 AM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Mars in three days? NASA touts new propulsion system
>
> foxnews.com Monday, February 22, 2016
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/02/22/mars-in-three-days-nasa-touts-new-propulsion-system.html
>
>  Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti
>
> http://bit.do/jaimaharaj
>

So you accelerate using Earth based lasers.

Then you decelerate using...?

Actually, science fiction author Robert Forward proposed a system using 
a detachable outer ring to the sail that is used to reflect laser light 
from Earth back to the sail on the craft, accelerating the outer ring 
while decelerating the craft, but I don't think NASA are intending that.

Sylvia.

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On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 4:37:37 PM UTC-8, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 23/02/2016 11:49 AM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> > Mars in three days? NASA touts new propulsion system
> >
> > foxnews.com Monday, February 22, 2016
> >
> > http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/02/22/mars-in-three-days-nasa-touts-new-propulsion-system.html
> >
> >  Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti
> >
> > http://bit.do/jaimaharaj
> >
> 
> So you accelerate using Earth based lasers.
> 
> Then you decelerate using...?
> 
> Actually, science fiction author Robert Forward proposed a system using 
> a detachable outer ring to the sail that is used to reflect laser light 
> from Earth back to the sail on the craft, accelerating the outer ring 
> while decelerating the craft, but I don't think NASA are intending that.
> 
> Sylvia.

Mars is 20 trillion bucks to late.Money is energy,and GOPer Mafia took it all in the 8 years of Bush.In reality we don't have bus fare. TreBet

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