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Technology Chat => New Technology, Science etc ... => Topic started by: DD1975 on February 19, 2014, 13:10:56 PM

Title: LHC to get big brother?
Post by: DD1975 on February 19, 2014, 13:10:56 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26250716 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26250716)
Title: Re: LHC to get big brother?
Post by: sybershot on February 19, 2014, 16:25:22 PM
wonders if there thinking of harvesting the anti-mater for new-age space craft.
Title: Re: LHC to get big brother?
Post by: Data on February 19, 2014, 16:43:55 PM
Quote from: sybershot on February 19, 2014, 16:25:22 PM
wonders if there thinking of harvesting the anti-mater for new-age space craft.

That's what you call forward thinking Syber.  :thumbsup:  :D
Title: Re: LHC to get big brother?
Post by: sybershot on February 19, 2014, 16:51:12 PM
indeed Data, to be honest I'm not getting any younger and ~dag nab it~ I want to see ant-matter propelled spaceships before I depart this aging body of mine.
Title: Re: LHC to get big brother?
Post by: Snowcrash on February 19, 2014, 17:49:09 PM
If my memory is working correctly, it would take 2.3 grams (0.08 ounce) of antimatter to get a craft the size of the shuttle into orbit.

Or, at present production rates 10,000 years. Or up production by 10,000.

Unfortunately, there is no antimatter drive. And it would take more energy to make the antimatter than it would take to put a craft into orbit.

Newton's 2nd law of thermodynamics is a bitch.
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