hph6203 said:Vegas guy's claim was that a propulsion system exists that can distort gravity around the ship, which is a derivative claim of UFO nut Bob Lazar. Is it possible he's not just a crazy person? Sure, but odds heavily favor crazy person over legitimate reality.aggiehawg said:LOL. I won't be alive in 15 years. The reason I asked was because of Las Vegas bomb guy's "manifesto" about an entirely different propulsion system, that according to him, we already had.hph6203 said:
Wouldn't expect to book that ticket in the next 15 years.
This stuff is not in my wheelhouse so I have little to no frame of reference to know whether something is complete BS or not. So I ask you fine folks to educate me.
Thank you for that BTW.
Starship has the ability to achieve those travel speeds through combustion and just going really, really fast/traveling through a near vacuum. It's not speed of travel that differentiates Starship from technology from 60 years ago that makes those flight times possible, but rather Starship's ability to land after launching.
Yeah the whole point of starship earth-to-earth is that we've been able to deliver weapons for 5 decades with rockets. Starship for the first time makes it conceivably financially viable to deliver humans or supplies.
There's nothing about starship that needs goofy UFO tech to explain. But the cumulative technology really hasn't existed for very long to do this, mostly on computer control and designing.
