Thanksgiving update, recent ideas

[tevarin]

We're back from Connecticut, after a seven hour car ride featuring stop-and-go traffic and vomiting. Avoid the Nathan's hotdog place at the Molly Pitcher rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. Although I'm not entirely sure they're to blame, I wouldn't take the risk

Comments

[anonymous]

This is not a good passenger vehicle.

It's a great passenger vehicle! For passengers that mass under 10kg, anyway. I nominate babies, who have the low mass desirable for launch vehicles and ships going at significant fractions of c.

Anyway, another problem I think is just the mass of the cable, along with the weight. That'll be one very big balloon. Could the cable be part of the weight.

--josh

[tevarin]

Newborn babies plus life support might be pushing the weight limits. How about embryos? They're even freezable for long duration journeys. The problem of recruiting and training embryos for astronaut service is left as an exercise for the student