Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online – Massive online library project is venturing into uncharted legal waters…
March 29, 2020
Gun-Rights Activist Releases Blueprints for Digital Guns…
March 29, 2020
Cody Wilson calls the move impervious to legal challenge
Introducing the Q-Drive: A concept that offers the possibility of interstellar flight…
March 29, 2020
Enter Jeff Greason’s Q-Drive, with an entirely different take on high velocity missions within the Solar System and beyond it. Drawing its energies from the medium to deploy an inert propellant, the Q-Drive ups the payload enormously. But can it be engineered? Alex Tolley has been doing a deep dive on the concept and talking to Dr. Greason about the possibilities, out of which today’s essay has emerged.
Interstellar flight is already possible via Project Orion. The technology largely existed in the 60s but political will prevents the use of nuclear bombs as propulsion. Frankly, an Orion colony ship could make it to Alpha Centauri in about 133 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)