By using fusion powered ramjet rockets, I intend to send 1000 Anglo-Saxon colonists to the nearest habitable planet. Due to relativistic time-dilation, weeks would've passed while decades passed on Earth.
Once the colony is established, the ship's fusion reactors will be re-purposed to power the city I would like to call New Europe. The planet will be called Europa.
After that's out of the way, we set up massive hydroponics facilities, produce food, study animals as new forms of livestock, and breed at three times the replacement rate. Manifest destiny is the goal of this expedition as well.
We find sentient natives with stone age tech, we process them—no more mercy like last time!
None of those things are even remotely related. Fusion is either electrical propulsion (Ion engine ie voyager) or impulse propulsion (bowing up bombs behind the craft). Ramjet requires air, hence the name ram air jet. Rocket is propelling the mass of a fluid out the back of the craft like a water gun, usually accomplished via chemical reactions like H2 and O2 or Kerosene or Hydrazine. If you want to make an Anglo colony at least figure out how space travel works first.
Technically, it's fueled by cosmic hydrogen. What the engines do is that they take hydrogen, fuse it, and use the energy to propel the craft. I should've specified.
That's called time dilation. It happens when an object reaches a percentage of lightspeed.
Oliver Clark
You people need to get /fit/ and /lit/ for when the generation ships start rolling out. They're not going to let some losers on board.
Colton Miller
The amount of fluid required by a ramjet is enormous. There's no way there's enough latent hydrogen and if there was the dragfrom that amount of fluid would destroy the vehicle.
Tyler Fisher
Also the most cost effective method is project Orion/Daedalus, impulse propulsion. It can't be used because of the outer space treaty but is capable of producing 0.1c+
Carter Walker
>Fusion is either electrical propulsion (Ion engine ie voyager) or impulse propulsion (bowing up bombs behind the craft).
Fusion can also be used by channeling the plasma through coils creating a subspace bubble. This bubble lowers the moment of inertia of the craft substantially. The plasma is then vented out exhausts on the rear of the craft. The lower moment of inertia allows the vented plasma to propel the craft at 0.99C. This is called an Impulse drive.
Sebastian Thompson
You want to approach relativistic speeds with a rocket? At least consider a solar sail for your magic flying machine.
>Due to relativistic time-dilation, weeks would've passed while decades passed on Earth. That's not how it works.
Nolan Howard
For the sake of clarity it's called pulse propulsion, not impulse. Impulse is the measurement used to describe effectiveness of rockets
Thomas Martinez
thats not a thing nigger. do you even hear the words you say. fusion powered ramjets. ramjets burn fuel. fusion would convert hydrogen to helium. are you going to burn helium?
Aiden Gutierrez
>The planet will be called Europa.
dear larping faggot, i don't think you know what an anglo-saxon is. the term was created for several purposes, and one was to make a distinction between britons and the cultures on the continent. calling an anglo-saxon colony europa is fucking insulting.
ignorant fuckstain.
Justin Watson
flesh and space don't mix sweetie. Our only future is nanobot swarms with DNA databases stored within.
Nathaniel Stewart
if i were a mod i would delete this thread and ban OP
