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Future spaceships powered by black holes ?

Posted on Saturday, 28 November, 2009 | 25 comments

The future of space exploration could be powered by black holes or dark matter based on new proposals by physicists, current spacecraft propulsion and power systems are inadequate for taking us beyond our own solar system.

Spaceships powered by black holes or dark matter may be the future of stellar exploration. The radical proposals, put forward by physicists in two American universities, are hoped to make visits to other stars in our galaxy plausible.

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#21 Posted by The Silver Thong on 2 December, 2009, 19:51
Sounds pretty damn awesome. I wish I had the computer know how and the science to back and illistrate a future mining mission to Mars. However I will need about 7 years of school, see ya in a bit and damn, tell Don to save me some left overs I might be late LOL Everytime I see Don's smoke...

#22 Posted by danielost on 3 December, 2009, 1:06
do you think we can sink a mine on mercury and sit up living space inside the shaft in 44 days. since mercury rotates every 88 days.

#23 Posted by MID on 3 December, 2009, 17:21
Yep...I know what you mean!

#24 Posted by chemical-licker on 4 December, 2009, 4:51
but what is dark matter? even though im in it can i touch it?

#25 Posted by MID on 4 December, 2009, 18:28
I think I mentioned this before... We don't know what dark matter actually is. It's hypothetical, and undetected directly. It's presence is inferred by it's gravitational effects. Thus, it get's a wee bit far afield to speculate about dark matter and dark energy powered th...

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