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- From: lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
- Message-ID: <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:27:43 PST
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- Sorry, couldn't quote all of this one.
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- Firstly. I see what you are talking about _now_. Sounds not too bad.
- However, it still seems to me that carbon-catalyzed may be a great way to
- go. 1) your carbon keeps coming back and 2) you won't have to carry
- around what I see as becoming GIGANTIC amounts of antimatter. So what
- YOU are talking about is using antimatter as a partial source of the
- energy to get the hydrogen to FUSE? Sounds good thus far...
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- Scramjet... You know, that may be a SUPERB idea! Though you can't use
- it initially, I'm looking at seperating the magnetic coils into groups
- that are individually controlled. Such things as a bussard scramjet
- could be used at high velocities (near the theoretical limit of
- non-scramjet engines), which would give us 4 stages...
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- Conventional drive (perhaps an injected nuclear pulse engine?)
- Carbon (or antimatter) catalyzed fusion drive
- Proton-Proton fusion drive
- Scramjet p-p fusion drive
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- Sound good on that end? Any more help on the carbon-antimatter selection
- would be MUCH MUCH MUCH appreciated!
-
- Jason Cooper
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