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- From: kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco)
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- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:47:27 GMT
- References: <93007.120340DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <C0IB07.BBL@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- In article <C0IB07.BBL@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >If we mounted a major effort, we could probably be test-firing antimatter
- >rocket engines within ten years. There are *NO* fundamental barriers that
- >anyone has been able to find.
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- Electron-positron annilation generates a couple of gamma ray photons.
- As gama ray photons don't couple well with matter, it would be very
- difficult to use this energy source to heat reaction mass.
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- Does proton-antiproton anniliation differ?
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- -Kevin
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