If I had the capital and resources some billionaires have, I would not only be living on Mars, but actively vacationing on and colonizing Europa, the problem with today's "science" is instead of tearing down the walls of the conventional box of comfort, today's science is building a "better" box inside of it; It was a hurdle to take a bike with a kite attached to it , to actually reaching the moon, and "science" did so in an infantile amount of time comparatively, likewise, we went from sending morse code over a copper line to having computers in our pockets that can reachout all across the globe in the same amount of infantile amount of time; Intellect has left the abstraction of actual progress, for the stability of mediocrity and the comfort of conformity;
A starship for intergalactic travel, a Titanium frame/skeleton with a Tungsten double hull skin with Bismuth between the outer and inner hull, using a Teflon-based laminate (PTFE) as the thermal interface and a silica/carbon blend aerogel as insulation between layers; Ideally a fusion based ion drive system, and the entire ship would be controlled via a bio-neuro quantum computer with adaptive active learning ai; The life of the craft could theoretically last eons, but the reality would be, it is an explorer and recovery ship, to seek out exoctic materials, harvest them and return them to a central processing facility, to create new materials and technologies;
I have a complete launching and landing platform in mind, what I would do for the water launch is all around the actual ship there would be autonomous attached drones all with their own fusion ion drives, starting just south of the Bering Straights, go south through the Pacific at break neck speeds, about Hawaii the main drive on the ship fires, and just before you hit the south china sea, you leave earth at one hell of an escape velocity, and they just stay attached, in theory they could be detached, or remain as secondary propulsion if needed, from concept to active deployment of the starship would be roughly $1Trillion, with an actual realised 10 year ROI of 10x of initial cost; But low as I trapped in a body and mind that decays as my existence is confined to poverty on this wretched rock;
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