Re: MARS HYBRID DESIGN II (First Draft)

[Brian Mansur <bmansur@oc.edu>]

Brian 9:56 CT 3/5/96


David:
>Just rambling.
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>
>David


Kelly
>Yeah.

>Interesting point about Star travel.  The whole idea of the radio search of
>the galaxy is that phyisical star travel is impossible.  So civilizations
>would have to content themselves with randomly transmiting (possibly for
>hundreds of thousands of years!), until someone in the galaxy decides to
>listen and reply.  We have shown that it is possible; not practical yet,
>but possible.  Given that what civilization would wait hundreds of
>thousands of years for an answer, when they could just go look for
>themselves.

>So in a way, we haven't come up with a doable concept yet, but we've done
>better than Carl Sagen and friends.

Brian
So how does it feel to be on the cutting edge ;) of starship design?  What's 
sad is that we are the only ones who really look at this problem from at 
least a semi-real perspective.  And whats sadder is that we're finding that 
we have to be completely unrealistic (by today's tech standards) to think up 
anything that would get us to TC.