Build your own spaceship

[VulcanRider]

Really, it's been patented:

http://tinyurl.com/arfrq


A good way also, is to amplify the gravitational attraction from planets and suns to dance thru the void. I couldn't afford that model.

[Mack_Attack]

Inflationary is that something to do with farting?

[Ilander]

Wouldn't accelerate very fast at all...and I have my doubts that it would work at all within the solar system...not plausible, unless you use a LOT of juice...

[Iron Greasel]

I doubt something like that could escape Earths gravity well. And once you're out of the well, acceleration is not needed that much. You can get anywhere in the solar system with chemical rockets, and beyond that you can't get at all, unless you build a big enough ship to support an entire tribe.

[Melcheor]

U.S. Patent Documents 3626605 Dec., 1971 Wallace. 3626606 Dec., 1971 Wallace. 3823570 Jul., 1974 Wallace....

Wallace as in Wallace and Gromit I would assume...

[Ilander]

Originally posted by Iron Greasel: I doubt something like that could escape Earths gravity well. And once you're out of the well, acceleration is not needed that much. You can get anywhere in the solar system with chemical rockets, and beyond that you can't get at all, unless you build a big enough ship to support an entire tribe.

This wouldn't be used to take off, dude...pretty much only good ole chemical rockets can do that. Heck, you wouldn't be able to kick it on for the first few billion miles...you'd have to be in DEEP space to switch it on, and no man-made device has made it that far out yet. Not even Pioneer. Not even Voyager.

Acceleration is just as needed "outside" the earth's gravity well. The solar system has an escape speed, just like the earth. Go slower, and you'll end up back where you started or in the Sun.

The advantage of this style of design is that it can be turned "on" for very long periods of time...which is good, considering that the acceleration it would generate would be maddeningly low...but given long enough, it really doesn't matter.

[ 12-12-2005, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Ilander ]

[Brayf]

Haha, I haven't tried to understand that design (because I wouldn't be able to), but am I correct in thinking that it's based on using the expansion of the universe as energy?! That is ingeniously funny.

[Tobbin]

Basically, the theory is that it would create an electromagnetic field along the inner axis and rotate the outer axis to create a counter electromagnetic field to then push the rotating axis to create a vacuum imbalance (varying it's spacial distance thereby changing pressure inside the sphere.) Which, in effect, would push against the outer wall pressure (from outside of the vehicle) to force the object along. Seemingly to sound similar to having a ballon filled with water on the ground and then squeezing sections of the balloon to make it push itself forward. Sounds somewhat feasible, but very expensive if they are gonna use a nuclear generator to create the electromagnetic fields. Hmmmm.

[robertthebard]

Seems fairly interesting, is so far as my knowledge of applied physics goes, oops already surpassed it... [img]tongue.gif[/img]