So......why exactly are we still using chemical rockets to go

>>7814438
>Thinks he knows better than the best physicists and engineer in the world

Then why don't you go to NASA, pitch the idea to them, get hired and start earning 7 figures as the new head of engineering or whatever.

You fucking retard.

>>7814438
because a conspiracy.

>>7814438
because morons

>>7814438
>citation needed
>full citation needed

>>7814442
NASA already has researched them

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/Ion_Propulsion1.html

>>7814453
[1]http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/Ion_Propulsion1.html
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_propulsion#Table_of_methods
[3]http://soliton.ae.gatech.edu/people/jseitzma/classes/ae6450/ion_engines.pdf

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>>7814438
>Ion thrusters have an input power spanning 1–7 kilowatts, exhaust velocity 20–50 kilometers per second, thrust 25–250 millinewtons and efficiency 65–80%
>25–250 millinewtons
I wonder how it feels to possess no tangible knowledge of a subject, yet to be 100% sure that you know how things should be done within that subject
can someone conceive such a shit-tier thread and not once during writing think to himself "I failed physics 101, why am I so sure again that the guys at Blue Origin and SpaceX are doing everything wrong"?

>>7814475
This.