“In 2013, Y.K. Bae Scored Funding From NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program To Study

Futuristic Laser Space Engine Passes Its First Test
Someday it could get us to the moon within hours and Mars within days

“In 2013, Y.K. Bae scored funding from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to study an amazing new kind of propulsion: Thrust that comes not from liquid rockets but from lasers continuously fired at the spacecraft, which would steadily gain momentum in the frictionless vacuum of space. It’s called the Photonic Laser Thrust system, and it could drastically reduce the amount of fuel needed for space missions. And now, Bae has announced that lab tests of the technology were successful.In the experiment, Bae fired a laser at a one-pound mock spaceship on a frictionless track and successfully produced thrust. The laser bounced continuously between two mirrors inside a cavity at the bottom of the simulated spaceship, building momentum of 1.1 milliNewtons. We’re not talking about a lot of thrust. For example, the full sized, 6.2-million-pound Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo 11 moon mission to space needed about 34.5 million Newtons of thrust to lift off. It was many, many orders of magnitude more powerful. However, the goal of the laser system isn’t to get things off the ground. The goal is to boost a spacecraft’s momentum when it’s already in space—which, if you can reach it, requires much less energy than getting a big, heavy hunk of metal off the ground.”

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12 years ago

......I've been asleep for over six hours, I just woke up to see if something nice was posted... Now I'm crying.... I'm a 20 man crying over a doodle... The kid in me is horrified

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12 years ago

Is it bad that I hate attention whores?

I swear it's almost as if this girl is just trying to spite me by being around me, I can't be nice to her or I'm annoying, I can't say anything to her or I'm being rude, I can't do anything around her because I'm unimportant, BITCH KEEP KISSING EVERYONE ELSES ASS AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE ME THEN STFU AND GO SWITCH OUT OF THE CLASSES YOU KNEW I WAS IT... I swear I might explode on her... very soon, childish people piss me off when they give me shit for there own issues...


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12 years ago

Two years ago I first found this song, this was a day before that gf left me

I randomly sang this song the night this last gf cheated on me, I wouldn't find out for a few days later...

2 years... and the shadow and patterns of the old bleed and molest the shades of the present...

Sadly this song has never once not fit my mentality...

4 x 2=8

12 years ago

beginning of my bio for a show

i would like to believe that I could be angry, that I could loath them just as much if not more then they me. I'm alone here, where there shouldn't be lines drawn and where eyes should be blind to colors and the judgement that tollows would be treated as something for the masses. Yet here I'm tormented by bias, by someones hope that I'd live as low as their expectations. Where open words and physical abuse once sufficed now rules and limitations seek to break my will. They make it out to be a sport, a game of me. Yet it only makes it easier for me to win. I can eat alone, live alone, and learn alone just fine my dear. They would not be able to get me out, that I'm sure of. My entire time at the acadmeny I was shunned, though my father had been a military man, and a leader at that just by the fact alone that I was colored made me less then any other cadet. We knew the same things, I would think that we had shared the same qualitications of enrollment, even the same education. It was still meaningless to them all. I was required to (Insert task here)

12 years ago

Oh Jeez, Tagged by LacedinLove

Rule 1. Always post the rules

Rule 2. Answer the questions asked of you

Rule 3. Ask 11 new questions

Rule 4. Tag 11 more people

Rule 5. Let them know you’ve tagged them

Questions I have been asked…

Here weeeee go!

If you could chose, what would your last meal be?

Kid you not I'd say "Your Souls...and a bigggggggass steak with cake" 

  Who was the all time sexiest president of the US?

Hmmm... future me ;) but otherwise I'd be cheap and say Kenn.

  What’s the most attractive quality someone can have?

Colinablity, the characteristic of being able to put up with my crazy bipolar devious ass lol

  What do you wish you could be doing now?

Hmm... to game or eat?  Would you join me in conquering the world?

NOPE! Well maybe help you then beat you and take it for myself s I could make a joke out of it

  Opinion on socializing?

I love it, but if people aren't going to keep contact then I'm not gonna waste anymore time

  Favorite color?

Black, White, Teal, Maroon, orange :3

  How are you feeling?

Content and kinda happy

  Do you want a tattoo?

Eh, no need for one

of what?

It'd have to be something really important to me

 Can you tell me a joke?

...Billy's Baloon

 When is your birthday?

September 18

Sadly I no have many friends so :p

12 years ago
Just A Random Pic Of Me Thinking...

Just a random pic of me thinking...

12 years ago

That was exactly what I was thinking! I figured one of these days when I decide to go hiking up in the hills by my college I'd go and hunt me up a good branch. The shield brancelet will be fun to make, but my biggest thrill is seeing how I'll put together the rings he wears. I wouldn't mind using my cat, but then again my cat tends to reguard my dog as an annoyance lol. If I can get my hands on a camera I'll totally post them up!

I Was Bored So I Drew Harry, Mister, And Mouse In Adventure Time Style. Sweatpants + Cowboy Boots= Facepalm.

I was bored so I drew Harry, Mister, and Mouse in Adventure Time style. Sweatpants + cowboy boots= facepalm.

12 years ago

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

My ipods, those things are creatures all their own

12 years ago

“How are you defining love?” “It isn’t a simple formula, Harry. I’m not sure. I recognize it when I see it.” “So what’s love look like?” “You can have everything in the world, but if you don’t have love, none of it means crap,” he said promptly. “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.” “And the greatest of these is love,” I finished. “That’s from the Bible.” “First Corinthians, chapter thirteen,” Thomas confirmed. “I paraphrased. Father makes all of us memorize that passage. Like when parents put those green yucky-face stickers on the poisonous cleaning products under the kitchen sink.”

Blood Rites (Dresden Files book 6) - Jim Butcher (via canceroftheearth)

I've used this quote alot to define love, Thomas (Jim B.) hits it dead on :)

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