3 Ways To Reach Mars Cheaper

Momentum Builds Higher than 93 Million Mph

There are currently plans to go to Mars and beyond using what's called Momentum Transfer and Way Stations. The idea of Momentum Transfer is about and vis a vis how you can create more force on a body by impact on the outside by another high-speed mass. The starship has another mass after it's been launched that's boosted up to reach it, and when the two masses meet the speed from the faster one adds a lot of speed to the starship. They then move with a moderate (combined) speed till the starship rejects the mass and it then speeds up the ship by reaction when the momentum is moved outward from it, they say this would make time of transit to go to Mars or other distant realms just a few months not years. Even if you had a constant comfortable speed of 32 ft/sec it would only take a year to reach the speed of light, so boost is more of a problem than resistance to motion.
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Way Ahead Of Our Time While We Save And Save

Another plan is about using Way Stations around the sun permanently or semi permanently in orbit between Earth and Mars, these would boost the speed of the starship and aid in fueling the Martians (they would be green if they ate a lot of cheeze chips!). I had the same idea but I considered it more and viable for Ma Bell because the cost would be so much higher to maintain the Way Stations. With the trip already costing trillions, the Way Stations are for the more distant years and months ahead (the remote with a big tube TV is big enough for 2010.)

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A Storage Room With Round Sides

A third idea that could be used with the Momentem boost however might be to first send a sort of javelin boom that would spear into the side of one Mar's small moons Phobos or Diemos, these are presumably captured asteroids, miles wide, so they weigh a lot. Once they were speared in the side the boom would be extended out so that when a high-speed starship arrives (Arriba! Arriba!) on the wave of the momentum (The starships are up!) the boom would catch the starship and the linear motion would be converted to angular storing up much of the energy used to make the trip in the spin of the asteroid, this would be used to essentially keep the starship at almost the speed it was when it got there with linear to angular momentum, so the energy would not be wasted and stored. A major cost of the trip to Mars no doubt is cost of fuel and by storing lots of the motion almost half the trips power costs would be saved, so it would be even cheaper than by momentum when the boom and moment plans would be combined. To go back to Earth in the month of March (or the big Ides of blue I would see when I got here if my opthamologist had her say) the astronauts would blast off from Mars up to the center of the spinning asteroid with boom, land in the center of the moon and then gradually move outward on the boom were the starship with the speed increasing when in the starship. The starship would be released at high-speed and most of the speed would already be reached needed to return to Earth.


A Bit of Another World (Soaps Return Savings Cupons!)

Another method that has been invented to use part of in going speed of a high-speed probe would be by a sort of lever on the tip of the high-speed machine. The machine of strong metal or other high strength stuff goes inward, the tip of the probe nips a sample of the surface of the world or other body to be returned to earth. The trick would be to use a lever on the tip of the machine that would rapidly reverse the high-speed motion of the ingoing probe with a sample from the surface so it sort of bounces right off the surface of the planet and much of the inward momentum would be converted to the outward saving a lot on the cost, this may be the only way missions to take samples of distant worlds may be affordable. This may be more of worth than going up the road -and instead of dashed lines, you see a zip map!
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