North Korea Has Landed a Man on Saturn...

[damngrumpy]

I think they mean landed on a Saturn on the highway

 

[Jinentonix]

Good to see the short bus of nation states is still able to provide a few laughs.

 

[AnnaG]

Well, the New Horizons took 2 years to get that far. Figure it might take about the same to get back because even though you spent a lot of fuel just leaving Earth, Saturn has another 10% more gravity. One could always make sure your spacecraft floats on Staurn's liquid surface. but then you'd have viscosity to deal wth when leaving. But that isn't te biggie. The biggie is that the surface is liquid, so finding rocks n dirt to bring back might take decades.
I suppose anything is possible, but erm ........

 

[Harrypotter]

Ill believe it when I see more of it. I'm not sure about this one.

 

[DaSleeper]

Ill believe it when I see more of it. I'm not sure about this one.

It's a Joke Son right over your head

 

[Blackleaf]

Saturn is a gas planet. Any spacecraft attempting to land on it would find itself in trouble.

 

[AnnaG]

lmao Ya think?

Gas is atmosphere. Once your spacecraft manages to get through the atmosphere of Saturn to something solid enough to land on (the liquid I mentioned), it's likely the size of a pea because of the pressure involved. My guess is that is somewhere around 1 x 10^4 Earth atmospheres.

 

[Jinentonix]

Well, the New Horizons took 2 years to get that far. Figure it might take about the same to get back because even though you spent a lot of fuel just leaving Earth, Saturn has another 10% more gravity. One could always make sure your spacecraft floats on Staurn's liquid surface. but then you'd have viscosity to deal wth when leaving. But that isn't te biggie. The biggie is that the surface is liquid, so finding rocks n dirt to bring back might take decades.
I suppose anything is possible, but erm ........

It ain't just that. It's the impossible travel time. Assuming for a moment that we can achieve those kinds of speeds, the g-forces involved would kill anyone in a ship accelerating to those speeds.
Of course there's also the really obvious problem. It would require an extremely heavy ship to get anyone safely through interplanetary travel. The shielding required to protect any and all bio-matter on board from full-on cosmic radiation would prevent any attempt at an earth based launch. There is NO propulsion system even designed yet that can take the weight that a fully shielded ship would require to overcome Earth's gravity.

 

[Blackleaf]

lmao Ya think?

Gas is atmosphere. Once your spacecraft manages to get through the atmosphere of Saturn to something solid enough to land on (the liquid I mentioned), it's likely the size of a pea because of the pressure involved. My guess is that is somewhere around 1 x 10^4 Earth atmospheres.

The gas isn't merely the atmoshphere. Saturn is nothing but a ball of gas.

 

[DaSleeper]

The gas isn't merely the atmoshphere. Saturn is nothing but a ball of gas.

And what would be the source of the gravitational pull to hold that gas in one place?

 

[taxslave]

And what would be the source of the gravitational pull to hold that gas in one place?

Communist doctrine.

 

[WLDB]

And what would be the source of the gravitational pull to hold that gas in one place?

More gas.

 

[Nuggler]

Need Beano.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Saturn, of course, being a big ball of swirling gas ...

Mind the step, Comrad Hung!

 

[DaSleeper]