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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.190716.5077@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <C0CKyt.7o0@zoo.toronto.edu> <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:07:16 GMT
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- In <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper) writes:
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- >Sorry, couldn't quote all of this one.
-
- >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...
-
- I didn't get the impression that that was what he meant. After all,
- if you have antimatter to use in heating the bulk of your exhaust
- products, why do you need fusion? You could probably get the same
- sort of energy into the exhaust just using the antimatter. Of course,
- yuou couldn't cruise forever, but I wouldn't think it would require
- amounts of anti-matter that would seem ridiculously large, given the
- scale of such a vehicle.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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