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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 12:03:40 PST
- From: Jon J Thaler <DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Message-ID: <93007.120340DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) says:
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- > Kilogram quantities of antimatter are quite adequate for early interstellar
- > probes, given modest vehicles. I don't have numbers for the antimatter-
- > fuelled ramjet on hand, but it *has* been studied and it looks plausible.
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- A reality check:
- This is about 13 orders of magnitude larger than the total number of
- antiprotons ever created and stored (about 10**14)
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