[1105.1861] Interstellar Solid Hydrogen - 2 views
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santecarloni on 12 May 11We consider the possibility that solid molecular hydrogen is present in interstellar space....
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Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg Plan Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri - The Atlantic - 1 views
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Behind the scenes story of this whole Starshot thing
Voyager 1 Hits Rumble Strips At the Edge of the Solar System | MIT Technology Review - 2 views
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NASA's oldest interstellar spacecraft is suddenly measuring changes more dramatic than any it has seen during its 35 year journey
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this is very nice! in either of the explanations Voyager will likely be in good enough shape to send data when outside of the boundary layer ...
Rogue planets in interstellar space - 0 views
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The paper: Mass and motion of globulettes in the Rosette Nebula http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2013/07/aa21547-13/aa21547-13.html
Yet another issue to take into account when you want to travel at c - 1 views
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While my attitude to articles about interstellar travel is generally sceptical, this one seems to raise quite an interesting point... Physicists?
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Also, remember never to dereference null pointers. -
True, it's almost like installing accelerometers upside down...
How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientific Discovery | WIRED - 2 views
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Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, "Why, of course. That's what it would do." This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it.
A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight - 1 views
Exoplanet Travel Bureau | Explore - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System - 1 views
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NASA marketing interstellar travel to foreign bodies even without knowing how they actually look like.
Antimatter Starship Scheme Coming to Kickstarter - 1 views
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"Hbar Technologies plans a Kickstarter effort to raise US $200,000 for the next phase design of an antimatter-propelled spaceship. The two scientists behind this design effort are a veteran Fermilab particle accelerator scientist and a former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist and founding director of the U.S. Center for Space Nuclear Research. They originally developed it for NASA at the turn of the millennium."
Warp Drive More Possible Than Thought, Scientists Say | Space.com - 1 views
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Sante, Andreas, Luzi, Pacome ... we need you: "But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more, White found.
"The findings I presented today change it from impractical to plausible and worth further investigation," White told SPACE.com. "The additional energy reduction realized by oscillating the bubble intensity is an interesting conjecture that we will enjoy looking at in the lab."" -
To me, this looks a little bit like the claim "infinity minus one is a little bit less than infinity"... -
Luzi I miss you ...
Voyager I has officially entered interstellar space - 2 views
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NASA JPL presentation on how and when Voyager exited the Heliosphere about a year ago - fascinating!
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NASA doing a great job here - very good presentation at a perfect abstraction level. I recommend watching the whole record.
Science on Mars and Mars on Science - 0 views
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Some sort of organic carbon has been detected by the sampling of Curiosity; the contamination source was isolated and the signal persists. The scientists suggest as a source meteorites transporting interstellar matter, or maybe some sort of ancient life whose biomass production only survived cosmic radiation as it was buried underground. a big deal: six relevant articles were published simultaneously online: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml?utm_content=&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=shortener
Dark Matter or Black Hole Propulsion? - 1 views
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Anyone out there still doing propulsion stuff? Two more papers just waiting to get busted... http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1429v1 http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
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One reply to Pacome, though the discussion exceeds by far the relevance of the topic already. Baryonic DM is strictly limited by cosomology, if one believes in these models, of course. Anyway, even though most DM is cold, we are constantly bombarded by some DM particles that come together with cosmic radiation, solar wind etc. etc. If DM easily interacted with normal matter, we would have found it long ago. In the paper they consider DM as neutralinos, which are neither baryonic nor strongly or electromagnetically interacting.
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well then I agree, how the fu.. they want to collect them !!!
Black-hole mergers cast kaleidoscope of shadows - 6 views
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In Interstellar, the science-fiction film out this week, Matthew McConaughey stars as an astronaut contending with a supermassive black hole called Gargantua. The film's special effects have been hailed as the most realistic depiction ever made of this type of cosmic object. But astrophysicists have now gone one better - this is a really cool visualisation done by researchers in Cornell.
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Wow, impressive! Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) software, very quick merging process though 17ms.. Observable?
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Mind-blowing!
How Big Would a Generation Ship Need to be to Keep a Crew of 500 Alive for the Journey ... - 4 views
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Interstellar space travel
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