Tendo City

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4292

According to this solution of Einstein's field equation, at 57.7% of the speed of light, relative to us, an object's gravity well will warp to such a degree that, directly in front of the object (relative to it's direction of motion), the gravity well will actually shoot foward as a beam, growing stronger and stronger as the ship accelerates. This can be thought of as an "anti gravity beam" the object can "fall" through. This is only good for up to about 90% light speed, but that's still pretty good. The solar system would all be within reach.

There are all those other nasty relativity consequences to take into account though, as well as how to build something that could use this method. Also others are rechecking this guy's work to make sure the equations do result in this. Assuming Einstein might actually have been right (and we have good evidence to say he was right on a number of things), we're off to Pluto on a quick 15 (I'd guess) hour trip.

Great, gang! Now all we need to work out is getting a ship to 100,000 miles per second, and then we can get the gravity well to take ove!

Well, its better than nothing.

I wanna walk on the surface of another planet. :(

Guess that's too much to ask for right now. Observing the surfaces of other planets is awesome though.



Look at that! It's freakin' Mars, man! That's like, a different rock floating out in space than the one we're on! Wicked!