http://www.weirdwarp.com/2009/11/take-an-asteroid-ark-ship-to-the-stars-and-arrive-in-second-place/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.weirdwarp.com/2009/11/take-an-asteroid-ark-ship-to-the-stars-and-arrive-in-second-place/comment-page-1/#comment-6571 Joe Young Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:29 +0000 http://www.weirdwarp.com/?p=2048#comment-6571 Lovely topic that crops up on Space.com forums so frequently. Begs the question if there should there be a debate about colonising alien planets stones throw from here (by warp drives) or branching out farther to the denser parts of the milky way. If you wanna aim this to the Proxima planets, theres this sci-fi book First Ark to Alpha centauri. My guess is why not branch out to the KBOs first then use a comet from there? Ha! Thatd be almost the same like in Niven and Pournelle's Heart of the Comet. Mind you halley's comet is getting smaller and tighter, losing tons of ices each circuit it makes to the solar systems ineer realms. Maybe better to hitch a ride in one of the sporadics that come here on parabolic tracks? Well nice topic anyhow Lovely topic that crops up on Space.com forums so frequently. Begs the question if there should there be a debate about colonising alien planets stones throw from here (by warp drives) or branching out farther to the denser parts of the milky way. If you wanna aim this to the Proxima planets, theres this sci-fi book First Ark to Alpha centauri. My guess is why not branch out to the KBOs first then use a comet from there? Ha! Thatd be almost the same like in Niven and Pournelle’s Heart of the Comet. Mind you halley’s comet is getting smaller and tighter, losing tons of ices each circuit it makes to the solar systems ineer realms. Maybe better to hitch a ride in one of the sporadics that come here on parabolic tracks? Well nice topic anyhow

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