Anders Hesselbom

Tool for interplanetary space travel

2011-06-23

If you are planning on doing some interplanetary space travel, this little calculator is what you need. It will tell you how much time you need to set aside for your trip, and how much time you’ll gain by using a faster ship. Only available in Swedish (because NASA aren’t planning any such trips in the near future, so I put my faith in ESA).

Download the tool from here (requires Windows XP SP3 or later).

Categories: Geeky

One response to “Tool for interplanetary space travel”

1. Martin J Sallberg says:

   2011-08-05 at 06:05

   String theory (and all other theories involving hidden dimensions)
   predict that gravity and electromagnetism unify in hidden
   dimensions and that the hidden dimensions are indetectible because of
   their small size. It does also predict that sufficiently short-waved
   photons, with wavelengths shorter than the size of the hidden
   dimensions, can enter them. Producing ultra-short photons can thus
   manipulate gravity, with revolutionizing space travel applications such
   as cheap anti-gravity launches. The
   problem that it would require high energy can be practically solved by
   concentrating several laser beams on a nanoparticle, heating it to
   locally extreme temperatures. An Alcubierre metric can be created by
   ejecting multiple nanoparticles from the craft and then beam perfectly
   timed laser beams on them (fire at the most distant first so that they are
   hit simultaneously), so each nanoparticle contributes a slower than
   light effect but together add up to faster than light, creating no discrete
   event horizon and thus no Hawking radiation.

   By Martin J Sallberg