The Perfect Spacecraft

[triffid]

Nature provided us with free fusion power from the star we call the sun.While I hear talk about solar sailing which could take us to other star systems by itself alone. I hear no talk about using solar powered rockets to get us to Saturn at least.How hard is it to focus sunlight onto a coil and push water through it,using the sun's heat to convert into steam?Why are we so blind when it comes to using the fusion power of our own star?Why can't we see the sun as a power supply?Triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

onthecuttingedge2005 (Jerry) said:

...the vehicle is a Light propulsion powered ship. not gravity.
...so much light energy that it would melt you.

Years ago, Keith Laumer(I believe), the Sci-Fi book author, wrote a novel about the initial confrontation between a warlike race(the Kzin?) and humanity.

The human ship was using an engine like---as you suggested---a huge flashlight or 60" search light.  The humans, otherwise unarmed, used the ship engine like a powerful    laser to incinerate the alien ship's "bridge" and crispy-fry the alien captain. 

The major feature, and my point being, the human ship accelerated at a rate of about 1/100 of a 'G'.  Your proposed spacecraft would necessarily be required to be built in orbit for starters, right?

[onthecuttingedge2005]

here is the birth place of real lightship technology, the birth of it was developed as having it's energy transfered by a powerful LASER.

the end result of this technology uses self powered systems such as fusion power plants and varies Radioisotope energy systems to power a special light projection system that is similar but more advanced and better futuristic materials, perfect mirrors are one.

Super optical materials are also a must for trapping light and such materials are in their birth states as well, super dielectric mirrors and optics.

if you want to start in the right direction then watch these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPM7wJAhovM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAdj6vpYppA&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07kZS13DEc&feature=related

it is only the beginning, NASA and Aerospace will continue this technology until it is perfected and self powered. NIF is also a factor in studying the power means for which to power the light Ship, they have already perfected the means to grow specialized crystals.

Aerogels are "Holy" materials that will make dreams come true. Efficiencies will skyrocket when super Aerogels take the place of normal materials.

also, firing a LASER at the perfect spacecraft only makes it more powerful because it will trap and utilize its energy for systems. it won't hurt it.

Jerry

[the_big_m_in_ok]

onthecuttingedge2005 (Jerry) said:

...also, firing a LASER at the perfect spacecraft only makes it more powerful because it will trap and utilize its energy for systems. it won't hurt it.

Can you be more specific?  How could this be done?


Allow me to make an offhand point:

I read awhile ago,

"How do you burn through a mirror with a laser?   Answer:  Use a very, very  powerful laser."

Unfortunately, I know of no technology that can absorb that kind of energy and not remain undamaged.  Think of your perfect spaceship falling into the Sun?  You see my point?  Same analogy.

--Lee

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Hi Big M.
just as there are superconductors for Electricity there are also undiscovered materials which superconduct photons, they are known as Super optics which are super dielectric reflective systems that are cooled to become Super PhotoConductive, they would trap Photons into a perfect circle trap until it is saturated. this technology is also in its birth stages but continued research in the field will perfect the technology for the perfect spacecraft.

Super cooled Dielectric Mirrors are what you want to study in this area or field or field of study. it is not just mirrors but plate type and or Fiber optical and or flat Freznel type optical systems as well. there will be many types of this technology to study but it is the Super Dielectric Aerogels made of this material that will skyrocket the efficiencies of the perfect spacecraft.

also there will be Super Aerogels grown from nanotubes, buckyballs and exotic materials that are in the birth stages. Super Aerogels with hardness far surpassing standard material and made into thin film materials grown directly on to surfaces of the spacecraft.

Trap light and then redirect it.

Holy Holy Holy, so they say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHnen2nSmDY

Jerry