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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.192507.26952@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <C0937v.FvM@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:25:07 GMT
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- In article <C0937v.FvM@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- writes:
- > In article <PqVNwB6w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca
- (Jason Cooper) writes:
- > >> I don't know exactly how you will get the hydrogen to fuse in the ramjet.
- > >> So far that problem remains unsolved here on Earth, except for fusion
- > >> reactions catalyzed by atomic explosions.
- > >
- > >The H will be highly compressed by the pressures from the rest of the H
- > >coming in. It'll be blocked where it stops by magnetic fields...
- >
- > Not good enough, alas. The pressure at the *center of the Sun* produces
- > only the most sluggish hydrogen reaction -- one that will take billions
- > of years to consume the Sun's hydrogen supply.
-
- I understand that a pile of human bodies (still alive somehow) as
- large as the sun would have about the same mass, but would produce
- more heat!!
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
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