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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
- Message-ID: <C0GH9C.DA@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:29:35 GMT
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- In article <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper) writes:
- >However, it still seems to me that carbon-catalyzed may be a great way to
- >go. 1) your carbon keeps coming back ...
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- I think if you look into it, you'll find that *you can't get adequate
- burn rates* just by throwing in some carbon. It simply isn't that easy,
- not unless you assume truly fantastic chamber conditions.
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- Bear in mind, too, that you're likely to lose a good bit of carbon out
- the tailpipe... especially if you're trying to build a scramjet.
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- >2) you won't have to carry
- >around what I see as becoming GIGANTIC amounts of antimatter...
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- The amounts of antimatter get huge only when you start trying to achieve
- seriously relativistic velocities.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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