DARPA's Long-Term Long Shot to the Stars
QuoteDARPA wants to hear serious plans for reaching the stars. The research organization is preparing to give a $500,000 grant to the person or group with the best plan for developing a way to send a living human to another star system sometime in the next 100 years. Such a plan would require no small amount of imagination -- the perils of space are many, and the journey itself could take centuries...
One day historians may look back and see this as the salvatin of the human race; or where we completly screwed up. Only time will tell :)
Well at least if DARPA are interested then it will probably be accomplished, but in what sense as they are first and foremost a military company, but then again most technological advancements that we interact with on a daily basis came from them.
There hypersonic vehicle the Falcon HTV-2 (http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Falcon_HTV-2.aspx) looks amazing and a lot like many UFO sightings, pitty its aim is to deploy bombs at faster speeds.
Quote from: Crow on August 23, 2011, 12:55:30 AM
Well at least if DARPA are interested then it will probably be accomplished, but in what sense as they are first and foremost a military company, but then again most technological advancements that we interact with on a daily basis came from them.
There hypersonic vehicle the Falcon HTV-2 (http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Falcon_HTV-2.aspx) looks amazing and a lot like many UFO sightings, pitty its aim is to deploy bombs at faster speeds.
I wouldn't like to be in a fishing boat near where that comes down!