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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!yuma!zappa!wallacen
  3. From: wallacen@ColoState.EDU (nathan wallace)
  4. Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
  5. Summary: The book is "The Starflight Handbook", by Mallove & Matloff
  6. Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
  7. Message-ID: <Jan05.201225.4538@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  8. Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:12:25 GMT
  9. Reply-To: wallacen@ColoState.EDU
  10. References: <1993Jan4.212241.26630@ee.ubc.ca>
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: zappa.cs.colostate.edu
  12. Organization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Dept.
  13. Keywords: Bussard, Ramscoop, Starflight
  14. Lines: 40
  15.  
  16. i lied.
  17.  
  18. well, sorta. The *correct* name of the book from my earlier posting is 
  19. "The Starflight Handbook", by Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff.
  20. Its ISBN number is 0-471-61912-4. *sigh* memory is the first to go...
  21.  
  22. Chapter 7 is the one which deals with the Bussard Ramjet. It details not
  23. only the Bussard design, but two variants which are more feasable using
  24. current technology and theory. The difficulties with p-p fusion as noted
  25. in the net discussion are mentioned; one of the variants addresses this
  26. problem. The net analysis by the authors is that ramscoops are probably
  27. limited to .2 c and not the most cost effective way to get around the
  28. near stars. They add the caveat that this is in terms of *current* 
  29. technology; a breakthrough in any of a half-dozen fields might change
  30. the picture enormously. 
  31.  
  32. The book also considers several other interstellar flight systems. It
  33. has very good coverage of the Daedalus probe designed by the British
  34. Interplanetary Society back in the 70's and project Orion.
  35.  
  36. Happy 1993!
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  41. |  Nathan F. Wallace                           |      ______/ /_/___    |
  42. |  email: wallacen@beethoven.cs.colostate.edu  |     / ____  ______ \   |
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  46. |              not those of any other person,  |   | ||/_______  /\     |
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  50. |  "War is the art of deception."              |     \_____  _______/|  |
  51. |                                 Sun Tzu      |      \___/ /\______|/  |
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