September 12, 2009

Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient. "Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft travel the solar system like ships carried on ocean currents, making longer and cheaper journeys possible, it has been claimed."
posted by homunculus 15 years ago
  • yay hyperspace
  • Somebody's been reading too much SciFi before bedtime.
  • This nonlinear approach would be quite the opposite of the Moon Elevator proposal, and I'm all for conserving energy whilst avoiding every chance for a Mega Engineering sky is really falling debacle.