#interplanetary travel

[chaosandfanfic]

DPxDC Fanfic Idea: Lore Drop

Danny travels through time and across the universe a lot. Mostly because he has an agreement with Clockwork and the Observants that if he does so they'll give him heads up if he's about to experience something that might drive him crazy, but also because he just likes to travel and visit alien civilizations.

As a result of his travels, he ends up learning a lot of cool things. Cool things that he doesn't realize are super big deals because he is learning them when they very much aren't. Stuff like various cultural rights and traditions of Krypton, how to construct Martian bio-ships, the origins of Themyscira... To him, they are just neat little tidbits, like people mentioning how Otters have favorite rocks. To the Justice League, and particularly to those from nearly dead species and cultures, everything he randomly drops lore on is a much bigger deal.

[longwindedbore]

I say this as a life long reader of Science and Science Fiction:

We are spending $93B (thus far) going back to the Moon because…ONLY because the Chinese are planning a Moon landing.

If the USA suspected there were any scientific data or potential mineral discoveries we’d have sent scores of scientific rovers to explore over the last five decades. For a fraction of the cost of the Artemis program.

Instead we’ve designed rovers and probes for Mars, Venus, and beyond.

PROBLEMS with ASTRONAUTS

We can design rovers to shrug off the horrendous levels of radiation and extreme range of temperatures that no space suit nor space capsule can effectively deal with.

NASA still doesn’t have a solution for the effect on astronaut lungs and eyes of microscopic moon dust particles with knife blade edges that cling to the suits and are carried into the lander and then the command module.

Experiences with months long deployment to the zero g of the ISS has provided no viable solutions for anatomical deterioration and other health conditions resulting from extended stays in low gravity environments.

All astronauts from brief moon walking missions had long term respiratory issues from the moon dust.

No human has been exposed for longer than a week and a half to the full brunt gamma and beta radiation so we don’t know what constitutes short term safe-level of exposure

[odinsblog]

How long a commercial airplane, traveling at 559 mph (or 900 km/h) would take to reach each planet, if it were possible

[stone-cold-groove]

Meanwhile, back on Epsilon-Chroma 12.

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

last chance to win the war

[midwestaesthetics]

Mars, Martian Landscape...

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Spacex.... BIG GOALS!!!

🚀 🔥🍌

[tenth-sentence]

Suppose we could transfer human beings instantaneously to any planet we wished by a mere snap of the fingers and with no further expenditure of energy than that.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov