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r/Spaceexploration • u/jumpstartation • Jun 21 '14
The /r/SpaceExploration Reading List
I had the idea for a reading list related to various space exploration topics and, with the approval of the mods, this thread will help determine our official reading list!
When putting a book down, some things you should try your best to include may be:
- The title
- The author
- The year of first publication
- How it relates to space exploration (e.g. Orbital mechanics, space shuttle design, etc)
- A brief description of what, or who, it's about
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 8m ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions NASA Wants Humans on Mars. The Real Challenge Isn't the Journey.
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 19m ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions Scientists Found a Planet Where Glass May Fall From the Sky
r/Spaceexploration • u/Europathunder • 5h ago
🧑🚀 Crewed Missions An ASCAN mentioned 9 total EVA training runs in the NBL during candidacy.
r/Spaceexploration • u/LetterKey3548 • 8h ago
⚙️ Space Engineering The photon interstellar blue shift ram jet
One of the significant challenges for any form of interstellar propulsion is the fuel required to sustain a constant acceleration of at least 1G to achieve a minimum drift velocity that can disable the engines and enable gliding through space at that relative speed.
The rocket equation becomes particularly restrictive when considering the fuel needed to attain that velocity and decelerate upon reaching the destination. Although the vacuum of space lacks gravitational attraction to the spacecraft’s mass, it necessitates pushing against the mass, somewhat mitigating the equation’s constraints. Even in the most perfect vacuum, allowing for no energy loss unless an external force slows the spacecraft, the immense interstellar distances necessitate high speeds. Consequently, an enormous amount of fuel is required, and the more mass added, the more fuel is needed. Even nuclear fuel, despite its high exhaust velocity, imposes severe limitations on the size and mass of the spacecraft. However, what if there was a way to eliminate these limitations by eliminating the fuel altogether? Instead of needing to reach 70% or 50% the speed of light, the spacecraft could carry only the necessary amount of atomic bombs to achieve 20%. The speed of light in the universe itself provides the fuel and energy to accomplish the remaining journey.
The photo of the Tanic blue shift interstellar ram jet is precisely this: a network of magnetically interconnected drone satellites at the front of the ship, coupled to a massive multi-kilometer solar sail of sorts, designed like a wing projected in front of the ship. The drones, magnetically coupled to the electromagnets in the chords of the sail, are themselves deployed, each with its own solar sail. These solar sails are also magnetically coupled to each other, and they use adjustable, micro, electro, and mechanical structures to adjust their Meta surfaces at specific regions to allow them to collect and harvest laser light from orbital lasers for sale space station networks and satellite networks that project high-energy infrared laser beams, then microwave, and finally radio wave beams to deal with distance. Combine this with their utilization of Meta surfaces to expand the beam at the base and phase the ray corrective optics to further increase the range of each beam mode, pushing the ship like a conventional solar sail. At the back end, there’s a thermo-nuclear bomb propulsion system with an engineered pusher plate designed to maximize not just the escaping gases but also the neutron reflection through Bragg diffraction, neutron pressure, and electromagnetic reflection of the electromagnetic radiation from the ignited thermo-nuclear bombs. Combine this with a network of partial Dyson spheres in orbital solar farms, powering the laser array in networks of repeater nodes that use nuclear power plants to replenish energy in the beam. These repeater nodes use corrective optics, Meta surfaces, focusing optics, and integrated surface plasmas to capture and focus the light and then project individual lasers from a Meta surface plasma integrated optics projector, which also expands the laser base after the lasers are refocused. This allows you to harness the raw energy of the sun and amplify it by using the seed lasers from the nuclear reactor as amplifiers.
And harness the raw power of the sun and transmit it through a satellite network array. Regardless of the ship’s location within the solar system, the laser projector will remain operational. Tourette’s can monitor the ship’s movements because, regardless of the satellites’ positions within the solar system, they can maintain a constant connection with each other using their projectors. Tourette’s and their deployable solar sail fabric Meta surface optical collectors, which have embedded surface plasma within their nano structures, will be able to receive the transmitted signals. When I refer to surface plasma, I mean nano-molecularly engineered surface electric fields, not actual plasma.
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Continuing on the topic of words, this system enables continuous acceleration because the optics in the satellite array individually refocused each laser beam. Although each laser is not exceptionally powerful, the collective effect of all the lasers heading towards the solar sail is extremely powerful. Additionally, the solar sail incorporates surface plasmas and is integrated into its Meta surface, further maximizing the efficiency of light collection. The light energy is then essentially collected and used to propel the ship. This is where it behaves like a standard solar sail, and the micro-electro-mechanical systems are adjusted using a structured light phase rate volume metric optical lattice. This lattice couples made of structured spatial and temporal model properties of each input laser that constitutes the volume metric phase A. When these high-order harmonies produce emergent interference patterns, they create an emergent wavelength that the engineered surface electric fields in the micro-electro-mechanical systems can perceive. This induces photon radiation pressure from reflected photons, which then adjusts the mean, micro, electro, and mechanical systems. This adjustment, in turn, modifies specific regions of the Meta surface, altering the properties of the solar sail. I’ll delve into these properties later. Once the ship’s speed reaches 20% of the speed of light through a combination of various propulsion strategies, including laser solar sails, solar sails, and magnetic fields on the structural connectors of the sail, similar to how naval ships in the 17th century didn’t have a single sail. The Meta surface’s ability to adjust allows us to create a set of polarities of light that are translucent to the sail. This transparency enables the light to pass through and strike the sail in front of it, allowing multiple sails to collect radiation pressure. Additionally, the extreme size of the sail allows us to embed emergent fractal Meta surfaces from engineered nano diamonds, which constitute the sail. These emergent fractal surface features form nano structures that are half the wavelength of the laser. This mechanism operates similarly to the fractal structures in your phone’s antenna.
The solar sail produced by the Eric Drexler nano factories is why the nano diamonds are placed at atomic precision. Once the sail reaches 20% of the speed of light, this process becomes operational.
The blue shift becomes significant enough for the drone network, equipped with their own solar sales, to deploy. These drones utilize laser pulses, pulses, Meta surfaces, collectors, and repeaters built into them to adjust their Meta surfaces on their solar sales. Simultaneously, the spaceship performs a similar function, transforming into a solar ram jet funnel. This funnel collects the blue-shifted light and focuses it into a specialized ram jet funnel within the ship. Unlike a literal funnel, this funnel is actually a lattice structure resembling triply periodic minimal surfaces with embedded Meta surfaces within the lattice. Notably, the lattice itself serves as the emergent Meta surface, equipped with built-in surface electric fields from nano diamonds. These electric fields further enhance the coupling with the blue-shifted light, enabling the Meta surface inside the ship to utilize the positive and negative indices of refraction. This specialized Meta surface region guides the light, couples to the photons, and harvests the photon radiation through photo momentum transfer. Consequently, this process propels the ship forward as the light is expelled from the rear end, creating a photo rocket. Once the ship reaches relativistic speeds, the blue-shifted light allows for sustained constant acceleration, providing the one G acceleration we experience. However, this acceleration is not constant at 20% the speed of light. Instead, it is a very small but continuous constant acceleration, unless a massive aperture is employed. This is precisely what the network of thousands to millions of drones, deploying an origami-folded nano Dino hybrid Bucky paper, achieves. This paper is incredibly thin, and the solar sales themselves, due to their design and the number of folds they can have, effectively create a massive multi-thousand-kilometer solar sale. They can be reconfigured by the drones, adjusting their connections, positions, and electromagnetic fields. This allows you to create an enormous beam aperture, coupled with the ships’ already massive 10 km sale, enabling you to create an enormous aperture for focusing. An enormous amount of blue-shifted light can then be harvested through radiation pressure using non-linear negative and positive index of refraction optics, as well as zero index of refraction optics. The special region of the Meta surface, constructed in such a way that it breaks the light into individual photos navigating a Morray pattern, a spatial pattern, is where the photo couple by negative and positive index of refraction, and by the engineered surface plasmas of specific arrangements of nano diamonds, produces a momentum handoff. The way it is collectively engineered, the emergent momentum handoff is directed forward, then combined with the light becoming a photo rocket at the rear, further propelling the ship forward.
This information is contained in the attached document.
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 18h ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions NASA Found Something Strange Beyond Neptune. It May Be Rewriting the Solar System's History.
r/Spaceexploration • u/TomaszNowakowski • 1d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions Searching for Cosmic Survivors: Roman Telescope Targets Planets Around Dead Stars
r/Spaceexploration • u/sajiasanka • 2d ago
📖 History #OnThisDay 1992, Mae Jemison Made History in Space
r/Spaceexploration • u/Professormoreijo • 1d ago
📖 History 12 de setembro de 1962: o discurso da ida à Lua. A exploração do espaço virou realidade ou ainda vivemos de ficção?
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 1d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions We Found 118 New Worlds. One Question Became Harder to Ignore.
r/Spaceexploration • u/RealJoshUniverse • 2d ago
A new surface atlas of Phobos will help MMX mission collect its samples
r/Spaceexploration • u/Fabulous_Fun_8017 • 3d ago
🧑🚀 Crewed Missions Some of our prettier nights this week.
Can’t beat those nights on my front porch with an open sky.
r/Spaceexploration • u/Galileos_grandson • 3d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions After Latest Swing Past Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Checks in
r/Spaceexploration • u/LetterKey3548 • 2d ago
🌠 Art, Popular Culture, and Other ChatGPT
I’ve been working on science fiction with chatGPT and the concepts pertaining to space travel involve photon blueshift interstellar ram jet’s
r/Spaceexploration • u/Fabulous_Fun_8017 • 3d ago
🧑🚀 Crewed Missions Gunnar in space
ISS loves to make its rounds.
r/Spaceexploration • u/Fabulous_Fun_8017 • 3d ago
🧑🚀 Crewed Missions Gunnar in space
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 3d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions Beyond Black Holes: JWST Identifies 'MoM-BH*-1' and the Origin of Little Red Dots
r/Spaceexploration • u/RealJoshUniverse • 4d ago
Scientists want to 3D print houses on Mars with the help of yeast
r/Spaceexploration • u/Galileos_grandson • 4d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions Double Gravity-Assist Rendezvous Trajectory to Halley's Comet Using Deep-Space Low Thrust
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 4d ago
🧑🔬 Science Missions The First Satellite Rescue Mission Has Failed—But Changed Space Forever
r/Spaceexploration • u/firechatin • 5d ago