interstellar travel
1Interstellar travel — Montage of fusion powered rocket concepts from 1987–2004, which could form the basis for an interstellar vehicle. Included are: VISTA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories,1987), Discovery II (NASA/GRC, 2002), Human Outer Planet Exploration… …
2Interstellar travel and the Wait Calculation — The Wait Calculation was introduced by Andrew Kennedy in his paper, Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress, published in the British Interplanetary Society s technical journal JBIS [Interstellar Travel: The… …
3Interstellar (disambiguation) — Interstellar means between the stars.Interstellar may also refer to:* Interstellar medium, the name astronomers give to the gas and dust that is scattered throughout interstellar space * Interstellar travel, unmanned or manned travel between… …
4Interstellar communication — is the transmission of signals between planetary systems. Interstellar communication is potentially much easier than interstellar travel, being possible with technologies and equipment which are currently available. However, successful… …
5Interstellar Responsibility Quarantine — The Interstellar Responsibility Quarantine (IRQ) posits that there is an inevitable test any intelligent life form must successfully pass, before it can travel to other solar systems. (See F(l i c) x L aspects of the Drake equation). The… …
6Interstellar probe — An interstellar probe is a space probe which has left or is expected to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space (typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause). Alternatively, the term interstellar probe is used to refer to a… …
7Interstellar ark — An interstellar ark is a conceptual space vehicle that some have speculated could be used to traverse the distances between stars. The concept was first developed by Dr. Gregory Matloff, who argues that such a vehicle may be the most economically …
8travel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Go from one place to another Nouns 1. travel; traveling, wayfaring, itinerancy, tourism; journey, voyage, excursion, junket, expedition, safari, tour, [pleasure or business] trip, trek, crossing, cruise …
9Interstellar medium — Interstellar redirects here. For other uses, see Interstellar (disambiguation). The distribution of ionized hydrogen (known by astronomers as H II from old spectroscopic terminology) in the parts of the Galactic interstellar medium visible… …
10interstellar medium — Content of the region between the stars, including vast, diffuse clouds of gases and minute solid particles. Such tenuous matter in the Milky Way Galaxy accounts for about 5% of its total mass. By no means a complete vacuum, the interstellar… …
