[Newsbot]

Title: Japan unfurls Ikaros solar sail in space
Category: Science
Posted By: Khar
Date: 2010-06-11 23:22:11

[tritium]

That's great an all, but until we start using Hydrogen as a primary source of propulsion for cars, trucks and air planes... we won't be going very far I think.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known Universe.

We could travel great expanses of space using hydrogen.

[KorbenDeck]

tritium tritium:

That's great an all, but until we start using Hydrogen as a primary source of propulsion for cars, trucks and air planes... we won't be going very far I think.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known Universe.

We could travel great expanses of space using hydrogen.

Better yet use nukes for propulsion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion Good way to use them up

[ShepherdsDog]

Nope - Dilithium will take us where no one has gone before.

$1:

That's great an all, but until we start using Hydrogen as a primary source of propulsion for cars, trucks and air planes... we won't be going very far I think.

Just don't let the Germans be in charge of that project.

[PluggyRug]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Nope - Dilithium will take us where no one has gone before.

Dilithium is refined Unobtainium.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Just don't let the Germans be in charge of that project.

If it wasn't for the Germans, space flight wouldn't be much of anything. Von Braun is the one that brought this all about.

-J.

[ShepherdsDog]

you just don't get it do you.

[DrCaleb]

tritium tritium:

That's great an all, but until we start using Hydrogen as a primary source of propulsion for cars, trucks and air planes... we won't be going very far I think.

If we used cars, trucks and aeroplanes to explore the Universe - where would we fill up?

[saturn_656]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

you just don't get it do you.