Atomic Rocket

I stumbled upon Atomic Rocket surfing the net and lost a whole evening reading about the technological challenges facing Slower than Light (STL) travel. It reads like a primer on rocket science and references (critiques) hundreds of Sci-Fi novels, and specifically, their misunderstanding of physics.  Mind you, this isn’t an actual Rocket Scientist who wrote this.

I am not a rocket scientist, merely an amateur that has read a lot of books. Any and all of the information on these pages may be incorrect or inaccurate.

But since I have yet to find a website like this written by a real live rocket scientist, I had to write it myself, as unqualified as I am. However, if I do put inaccurate information on this site, occasionally Internet readers will send me corrections. This is the “stone soup” method of website design, with me

supplying the stones. Frankly this website is a glorified term paper.

And despite what some of you believe, this website is not written by a team of people, it is just me. I do it all alone with little or no help (except for those kind souls who point out inaccuracies, alternate data, later developments, and spelling mistakes). So cut me some slack.

By the way, there are a fuck-ton of problems that need to be solved if we’re going to take a stab at this interstellar travel thing.  And most of the problems that need to be solved require that we solve the climate change issue.  So how’s that for irony.

Basically, you don’t get the fancy space ships unless you figure out how to make poop useful, make computers last forever, perfect the human diet, and keep sane.  And that doesn’t even count landing on a planet.