NASA's 100-Year Starship Project Sets Sights on Interstellar Travel

[jimmy olsen]

Railguns, Lasers, Vasimr are all making strides lately. They will be mission ready by the end of the decade and won't even cost that much.   

Are you kidding?  Manned space exploration is pretty much finished.  Your people can't fund that anymore.

The costs of those programs are in the hundreds of millions, not the billions. Even a midlevel European power could afford them.

Hungary would have no use for a railgun.

Is Hungary a midlevel European power? 

Also, you're landlocked.

[Neil]

Why not? Those first two programs are a drop of water in the vast ocean that's the defense budget and they convey immense improvements in capabilities.

VASIMR will be tested on the ISS and if it succeeds it will certainly be used, if not on manned missions then certainly on unmanned ones.

Oh, I don't care about those.  I'm referring to your manned mission, which can only be funded by tens or hundreds of billions.

[garbon]

Also, you're landlocked.

[Strix]

Railguns, Lasers, Vasimr are all making strides lately. They will be mission ready by the end of the decade and won't even cost that much.   

Are you kidding?  Manned space exploration is pretty much finished.  Your people can't fund that anymore.

The Chinese will do it.

[Eddie Teach]

Also, you're landlocked.

Tim only reads the first and last letter of names.

[jimmy olsen]

Also, you're landlocked.

Assumed I was talking to Tamas there. 

[Tonitrus]

Also, you're landlocked.

Assumed I was talking to Tamas there. 

Well, he did inspire the joke...feeble as it was. 

[jimmy olsen]

Why not? Those first two programs are a drop of water in the vast ocean that's the defense budget and they convey immense improvements in capabilities.

VASIMR will be tested on the ISS and if it succeeds it will certainly be used, if not on manned missions then certainly on unmanned ones.

Oh, I don't care about those.  I'm referring to your manned mission, which can only be funded by tens or hundreds of billions.

I never mentioned a manned mission.

[Neil]

Oh, I don't care about those.  I'm referring to your manned mission, which can only be funded by tens or hundreds of billions.

I never mentioned a manned mission.

Yeah, but that's what you love.  The whole thing for you is about getting all happy about man setting foot on Mars.

[Habbaku]

Railguns, Lasers, Vasimr are all making strides lately. They will be mission ready by the end of the decade and won't even cost that much.   

Are you kidding?  Manned space exploration is pretty much finished.  Your people can't fund that anymore.

The costs of those programs are in the hundreds of millions, not the billions. Even a midlevel European power could afford them.

Hungary would have no use for a railgun.

Is Hungary a midlevel European power? 

No, they're a Medieval one.