(DARPA should have asked for time travel, as well. Proposals were due at noon last Friday, June 3rd.) Step 1: Talk the Chinese into converting $1T of their holdings of U.S. debt to fund this effort. Their Terra Cotta Warriors show that previous Chinese govts have spent similar fractions of their GDP for attempts at immortality. At 01:08 PM 6/6/2011, Michael Kleber wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:04 PM, <rcs@xmission.com> wrote:
The physicist Robert Forward proposed anti-hydrogen as fuel for a starship engine. He needed 4g of anti-H2, to be annihilated and mixed with tons of regular matter (reaction mass), to travel to Alpha Centauri at a respectable fraction of c. The fuel is expensive, but has a wonderful specific impulse.
A timely observation, given DARPA's recent request for ideas on how to set up a self-sufficient agency to work on "interstellar flight in 100 years"!
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ad1728884c2dc05a344e330...
--Michael