Darby,
I have already spoken abotu your first question in a previous post.
Regarding your second question, I am not involved in that program nor that agency and am not familiar with financials in that area.
An interesting response considering the hints that I've been tossing your way. As you recall, in one of your early posts you made reference to the fact that you haven't perfected time travel to the future. You've also refered to yourself as a scientist who graduated from MIT. The hints go hand-in-hand with those statements as well as the budgets for the TT and Mars programs.
Time travel involves traversing a 4D Minkowskian hypersurface. It is called spacetime. Time becomes a fourth orthoginal axis in Minkowskian geometry to form a 4-vector as opposed to 3D Newtonian space with time as a simple scalar mediating translations and rotations of a 3-vector.
A rotation in spacetime mixes the x, y, z and t coordinates as given by a Lorentz transformation. Any scientist working on time travel would know that instantly because the scientist would not be dealing with the simple Lorentz transformations - they understand rotations. It's the basis for time travel navigation.
This means that a rotation in spacetime coordinates for navigation indicates that you can translate strictly through space, strictly through time with no translation in space or translation through both space and time. Knowing how to navigate from 2024 to 2008 is
exactly that same process as navigating from 2008 to 2024 or 2024 to 2040. Not knowing how to travel to travel to the future makes it a bit difficult to return home to the relative future WRT 2008.
Why in hell you wouldn't be familiar with the estimated cost of
$400 billion for the first Mars Mission, as a Director of DARPA, is beyond me...assuming that you are a time traveler.
Your mission cost is $25 million! Why use conventional transportation to Mars at $400 billion when you can rotate the axis and travel to Mars for $25 million or less? That's why I asked for the mission costs less R&D. And why would you send a Mars Mission crew on a two year trip when, again according to your previous post, your net trip time for three missions was less and one minute?
Remember, your mission was from 2024 to 2008. The spacetime
interval there is the same as a space trip of 16 light years! Mars is a piece of cake by comparison. You have the ability to explore the galaxy.
And this is the typical problem with would-be time travelers here and elsewhere. A few can write decent stories. You're one of the few. But so far not a single would-be time traveler that I've ever encountered (and there have been hundreds of them) has taken the time to do the academic research on the subject so that they have a clear understanding of the implications of the details of their story.
In that sense, even though you can write well, your story and knowledge is no different that the others. You're not an MIT graduate, you're not the Director of DARPA, your not a scientist and you're not a time traveler. You simply don't know what you're talking about when it comes to spacetime geometry.
I gave you sufficient hints to address this issue. If you were who you promised and assured people here that you were you should have picked up on them. I must have refered to Minkowski a half-dozen times. You didn't pick up the hints because you don't know who Hermann Minkowski was.
