As private space firms perform their flight testing and NASA re-invents the space shuttle, scientists all over the world are pumping out revised theories on propulsion systems that were once considered impossible. The United States Air Force is supposedly working on a new engine that could get us to Mars within three hours. This new engine technology is based on the late Burkhard Heim's theory that if you create an intense magnetic field, that field would provide enough thrust to propel a spacecraft. This very radical theory also suggests that if a powerful enough field was created, a spacecraft would slip into another dimension, traveling faster than the speed of light and coming back to our dimension if the engine is deactivated. This kind of scientific research can bring about a real event horizon horror story if put into the wrong hands. My only hope is that our military knows what they are doing or we could rip a hole in the space time continuum.
This Valentines Day, physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present his solution for the world's space travel problems to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. According to a NasaSpaceFlight.com article, Dr. Felber has a new exact solution to Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation. He believes that with this breakthrough, we will be able to travel throughout our solar system, as well as others, at 90% the speed of light. This technology is said to be low in cost for research and testing and should be available by the year 2100.
These advancements in technology will revolutionize space travel and exploring the universe will become the number one business of humans. But if we cannot persuade the people of Earth, then we might have a huge problem, and I'll explain why.
It's been a while since I've seen it, but Armageddon was a great movie and it really captured the spirit of mankind's will to live. While I believe that splitting an asteroid is something out of the Star Trek universe, I can understand the importance of the movie. Unfortunately, it takes a threat to solve a problem, a plane to hit a building, or a hurricane to fix a levee in today's world. Sometimes I wonder if it will take the complete destruction of the universe as we know it or God to quit his/her/it's post before we finally wake up and realize that we are here to live and survive. Earth is our home for now and we have no clue if it will be here two billion years from now. That is why we must make the universe our home so that we will be around long after the Earth. Humans are procrastinators that long for being on holiday forever.
After starting this article series I came up with a possible space future that we could see within 100 years from now. I decided to throw in a curve for shock value and I believe it could figuratively beat some sense into us. Below is a small piece of the Space Race 2 vision.
It is the year 2020 and the Earth is set to recycle itself within an estimated 100 years (Earth Recycle EarthRec). The future of humanity is in the hands of 3 space exploring nations...
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i would like to see man go as far as it can but getting there may be harder than people think. We mat have the technology but not the money to make it happen. It will cost billions of dollars to go to mars and what will we get when we arrive? A video, a few rocks and whatever else, nothing that could start paying for the enormous bill.