The Fundamentals of Intergalactic Space Travel E-Book

Erick Lofton

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This is a lighthearted look into the high tech world of space travel.  Hopefully it will serve as a starting point for those looking to journey to the stars. Coupled with experimental spacecraft and engines for sale on YouTube this book is a great read for all.

Leseprobe

Erick Lofton

The Fundamentals of Intergalactic Space Travel

This book is dedicated to everyone who extended me a helping hand along the way. Anyone that helped me will receive a free voucher to enter my first space station.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 Munich

Chapter1: Intersystem Space Travel

    Welcome to the exciting and never ending universe of space travel.  Let's immediately jump to the main question which is, how do we get from one star to another in a human lifetime?  The closest star in the universe to planet earth is Alpha Centauri. Although there could be an undetected planet with a companion brown dwarf star orbiting our sun out beyond the orbit of Pluto it has not been located as of press time. With our current level of technology, be it the space shuttle or the pioneer probe it would take almost 70,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri. Even to reach a planet orbiting our own sun in the region of Pluto would take ten to twenty years. In order to reach the first star from our own sun in under a year we would have to travel at 1.4 million miles per second, every day, all day for one year.  Moreover, you would have to accelerate and decelerate as well as take care of your bodily functions for one year without a mistake in order to arrive alive at Alpha Centauri.

Let us take a few moments to ponder the question off intersystem travel before we jump into Interstellar travel. At our current state of technological advancement  it seems we will be using some sort of rocket for intersystem travel between various planets and moons, and some sort of hyperfast method for long interstellar and intergalactic travel. I personally believe a rocket can be constructed using a powerful but inexpensive fuel derived from whatever plentiful element you have on hand. I believe it would be able to run on different types of fuel such as propane, jet fuel, hydrogen, even Jack Daniels whisky. As far as food, water, air and other items our solar system will be packed with space entrepreneurs who will have everything you need.  There will probably hundreds of wacky super expensive sublightspeed rocket engines for sale in the near future but for interstellar missions with no spare parts available you would want something simple and easy to fix. The easiest and most basic rocket engine would be a solid metal tube with one end closed and one end open. Obviously you will need a little thrust so I would lean toward moulding the metal on the inside of the tube so that whatever reactants you use are compressed in the front of the tube and violently expelled out the hole in the back.  With the equation (p1+pv2+pgh1=p2+12pv2+pgh2 ) we can see that with a explosive fuel and a simply moulded interior a powerful engine could be developed that would need little maintenance. Furthermore, using the equation F=ma along with this poorly rendered diagram F=p1 ⌛ p2.  With a little imagination we can see the bottom of the hourglass is filled with an explosive reactant, the middle is constricted so that when the reactant is ignited the pressure is built up until it explodes out of the top of the glass.  If you place the glass on its side, imagine a tank of reactant bolted to it and some sort of spark plug plugged in you will have a simple easy to fix sublight engine.  At this point we can close the book firmly on sublightspeed intersystem space travel, although rocket type engines are great for intersystem planetary travel, they will never exceed the speed of light and are utterly useless for interstellar spacecraft.

chapter 2: Interstellar Space Travel

    The future on the human race hinges our ability to conquer nearby star systems.  As of the year 2018, not one human being in recorded history has ever been past our own moon.  It is truly amazing that given our  bloody history of invading and brutally oppressing our own kind, not one human alive today honestly believes an alien race from another star system could  invade planet earth. I hate to write it but even I personally don't believe in aliens in nearby star systems either.  I wholeheartedly believe that between ten to fifty light years away from earth there must be another intelligent species but I don't believe they have a method of sustainable interstellar space travel.  For sure, I could be wrong but logically thinking if intelligent aliens exist within ten light years of earth then why can't we see them.  Moreover, if these aliens were so smart and so close how could they not see our sun.  The brightest star in our night sky is Sirius.  That means for up to twenty light years away in all directions any intelligent being would have to see Sirius at night. That means they can also see our sun, I imagine it would look roughly like wolfs star or Barnard's star looks to us. If they can see our star and they know it is close then that leaves only three options 1. There is no intelligent life within twenty light years of earth 2. There is intelligent life but they have not developed interstellar space travel. 3. There is intelligent life and they are either on their way or they are already here in secret. If it is option nuneed  three then drop this book and arm yourself for a fight