Unobtainium? Or just a boondoggle? I really would like to see even a photo of one of these monsters if they even exist - or ever existed. Perhaps the rarest of the rare - so rare that perhaps they never were really made. My speculation - but you decide for yourself. And enjoy!
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One way to create artificial gravity on the way to Mars and more distant planets would be to have a constant acceleration and then at the half way point more or less shut down the engines, flip the ship around and then have a constant deacceleration the rest of the way there. Of course, the first problem would be to carry enough fuel to burn for that long or make the fuel and engines more efficient (like what happened in The Expanse books/show), and to also have some sort of engines and craft that could accelerate for a long enough period of time and handle the insane speeds. (I didn't take the time to do the math to figure out how long you'd be able to accelerate at 1 G before reaching light speed! 😉 If the distances were too far, a reasonable period of zero G in the middle of the trip wouldn't be so bad and for really really long distances several acceleration/deacceleration cycles might be needed? Of course we'll need to wait for new technologies I'm assuming? We've only been using gasoline for less than 150 years and jet/rocket fuel even less time so, maybe a few hundred years from now we'll be flying around the solar system like we do the planet now days? 🙂
What are your thoughts about the quantum computer and the blockchain tech ?
Cool Hat 🙂
So, who here knows someone who knows someone who worked at Raytheon … is the question.
for those of us who play video games there is a category of product that covers for software the same niche that items like the datastrobe occupy in electronics– vaporware.
Could there really be a more perfect display? From some stuff I found the early version had an external magnetic memory drum as well (later development apparently integrated the drum into the character drum).
Sounds kinda like coldwar propaganda, something for the Russians to chew on
Trial balloons and market testing precedes many hyped products that never happen. I have tried to purchase listed specified integrated circuits that never got off paper.
I had a printer that worked in a similar way: a 'strobe' interacting with a rotating drum!
The print element was a single solenoid driving a narrow steel wedge that was the 'strobe'.
The wedge would hit the ribbon, the ribbon would hit the paper, but the paper could 'duck out of the way', leaving no imprint.
How did it make marks on the paper?
A rotating platen behind the paper had ridges down its length that would serve as a 'pinch-points' where wedge, ribbon, paper and ridge lined up.
As the platen turned, the wedge would strike in a coordinated manner, forming patterns of dots on the paper we call information.
Sounded like a very angry dot-matrix printer…that one little wedge had to do all the work of a gang of pins!
The wedge could print 11 dots vertically per pass, and was angled slightly to compensate for print-head movement.
To print a vertical line, the wedge would strike 11 times as the platen rotated under it.
To print a horizontal line, the wedge would strike as the ridge on the platen was in the right position.
It actually featured bi-directional printing!
But it treated every print-job as one massive bit-mapped image, so a single letter 'a' at the bottom of a page might take a long time to print!
All those empty lines…but you had to 'print' them!
Thankfully, the wedge didn't buzz the whole time, but the print-head still had to traverse the entire page!
There were a few built-in fonts that could fast-print with actual line-feeds, but it had only three fonts in 4 sizes, with bold and italic for each font.
It might take over 3 minutes to process a print-job; the print manager would convert your fonts to bitmaps…slow, slow slow, but decent quality!
Another 'bonus' was being able to cut mimeo stencils directly!
There was a switch that would shift the ribbon out of the way!
If nobody was watching, it did a fine job printing on thin metal foil…many tiny hammer-strikes…nice embossed patterns on copper foil!
It was a Radio Shack printer, don't recall the model…Toshiba under the hood, 1982(?)
The hard plastic platen didn't last long; even before I printed on copper, regular paper-printing was rounding off the ridges.
At that price you might want to check with the military…
Was the patent issued on April 1st? 😉