>>10938211Zubrin planned an architecture for going to mars in the early 90s. If we wait for meme tech before going to mars, we will be waiting another 50 years. Why do it that way, when we can already do it with present technical capabilities.
That honestly seems like a cool engine, but it needs to be nuclear powered. We will have high speed ships when we can bottle up fusion reactions and send the exhaust out one side. If fusion energy is decades away, fusion spaceships are likely centuries away. They won't really make sense until we need them to colonize the outer solar system, but before that we should colonize the moon and mars, using technology that is already available.
