Update 1: Link to the German teams results that found that it worked per Shawyers estimates in 2015

UPDATE 2:   I found a guy who figured out just how fast we might go if we could achieve constant 1g (1 earth gravity) acceleration!  And Holy Shit!!

w a constant 1g acceleration (and flipping and burning to de-accelerate it would take just 2 freaking days to get to mars at its closest. 2 days????

The Moon / Luna: Closest to Earth (Supermoon): Travel time  3h 20m 24s

Mars: Closest to Earth: 65 million km Travel time :  1d 21h 13m 1s

Jupiter: Closest to Earth: 588 million km Travel time : 5d 16h 2m 2s

Its also estimated we could get up to .5 C (thats half lightspeed) in about a year.   Tougher to go faster because mass starts increasing exponentially.  But still.   Interstellar travel in dozens of years instead of hundreds or tens of thousands.

So this is a first.  Following in the footsteps of the man i’m about to thank in the most epic way possible, i’m going to start writing blog posts to go along w the podcast.  This is a tad intimidating since the BaboonRoom usually lasts at least an hour, but so what???  This blog post is a long re-cap of the FB video cast that can be found above. Or HERE.  Having no real clue how to begin, lets just… y’know…. Begin.

 

Today’s guest is Greg Smithwick from the increasingly popular Solocal Pasco Podcast.  We discussed briefly that though his numbers fluctuate daily, month over month things are getting real serious in the best possible way!!!   I wanted to thank him for taking the Baboon Room under his wing and helping me get my shiz together!   The best way i could think of to do that was to read him a slightly edited version of this:

I highly recommend finding someone you really like and reading this to them out loud