{"id":9565,"date":"2019-01-15T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T04:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2019-01-27T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:39:14","slug":"cosmic-steamships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/15\/cosmic-steamships\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Steamships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/steam-powered-spaceship-could-cruise-cosmos-indefinitely-without-running-out-ncna958486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from NBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Steam-powered spaceship could cruise the cosmos indefinitely without running out of gas<\/h1>\n<p>Scientists say the microwave-sized craft would suck its watery fuel right out of the asteroids, planets and moons it&#8217;s exploring.<\/p>\n<p>By Brandon Specktor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wi5FhFEY3mM\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Come one, come all and behold the future of space travel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/44186-who-invented-the-steam-engine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">steam power<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously; half a century after the world&#8217;s first manned space mission, it seems that interplanetary travel has finally entered the steam age. Scientists at the University of Central Florida have teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybeerobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honeybee Robotics<\/a>, a private space and mining tech company based in California, to develop a small, steam-powered spacecraft capable of sucking its fuel right out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64276-asteroid-bennu-had-water-nasa-osiris-rex-discovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asteroids<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42947-phoenix-mars-lander.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63387-ice-on-the-moon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moons<\/a> it&#8217;s exploring.<\/p>\n<p>By continuously turning extraterrestrial water into steam, this microwave-sized lander could, theoretically, power itself on an indefinite number of planet-hopping missions across the galaxy \u2014 so long as it always lands somewhere with H20 for the taking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could potentially use this technology to hop on the moon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42335-should-nasa-send-another-mission-to-ceres.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceres<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63784-europa-covered-in-ice-spikes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59726-saturn-moon-titan-calm-seas-cassini.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Titan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62553-is-pluto-a-planet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pluto<\/a>, the poles of Mercury, asteroids \u2014 anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,&#8221; Phil Metzger, a UCF space scientist and one of the chief minds behind the steampunk starship, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-steam-propelled-spacecraft-prototype-theoretically-explore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. Metzger added that such a self-sufficient spacecraft could explore the cosmos &#8220;forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/steam-powered-spaceship-could-cruise-cosmos-indefinitely-without-running-out-ncna958486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Steam-powered spaceship could cruise the cosmos indefinitely without running out of gas Scientists say the microwave-sized craft would suck its watery fuel right out of the asteroids, planets and moons it&#8217;s exploring. By Brandon Specktor \ufeff Come one, come all and behold the future of space travel: steam power! No, seriously; half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}