forget sending a man to mars - this is the exciting stuff!

(unless that man happens to be ice cube, and his mission is to find ghosts)

If you are seeing this.. then it is OLD technology.

(unless that man happens to be ice cube, and his mission is to find ghosts)

BIG DADDY MARS FTW.

I wish to eat scrambled eggs while riding in scramjet as it is fitting.

Scramjets look like they will be hard to mould into an everyday working technology though;

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

"However, scramjets have weight and complexity issues that must be considered. While very short suborbital scramjet test flights have been successfully performed, perhaps significantly no flown scramjet has ever been successfully designed to survive a flight test. The viability of scramjet vehicles is hotly contested in aerospace and space vehicle circles, in part because many of the parameters which would eventually define the efficiency of such a vehicle remain uncertain. This has led to grandiose claims from both sides, which have been intensified by the large amount of funding involved in any hypersonic testing. Some notable aerospace gurus such as Henry Spencer and Jim Oberg have gone so far as calling orbital scramjets "the hardest way to reach orbit", or even 'scamjets' due to the extreme technical challenges involved. Major, well funded projects, like the X-30 were cancelled before producing any working hardware."