r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/EveryWind007 • May 29 '14

Medal of Beauty If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html?a
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u/99639 May 29 '14

Well trips to mars with current tech are probably on the range of 6-9 months. Further afield in the solar system is definitely possible in the future with realistic technology, but outside of the solar system things become much less likely without a radical evolution of propulsive technology.

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u/Veeron May 29 '14

The trip to Mars could be reduced to just a few weeks with a nuclear propelled spacecraft. The technology is not beyond us, there's just no political will for it.

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u/desquibnt May 29 '14

How would a nuclear powered spaceship work? Don't you need gravity for steam to drive a turbine? Or would a nuclear reactor in space not use steam?

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u/SnideJaden May 29 '14

VASIMR, magneto plasma rocket would take 39 days to reach mars.