Wednesday, 5 October 2011

The 100-Year Starship: US Agencies Ponder Interstellar Travel

By Clara Moskowitz Published October 01, 2011| Space.comWarp drives. Artificial gravity. Terraforming planets. These concepts might sound as though they're ripped from the pages of science fiction, but they're the topic of serious scientific presentations at a symposium this weekend sponsored by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.Called the 100-Year Starship Symposium, the public event will run Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 in Orlando, Fla. For three days, scientists from universities,

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