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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Making Antimatter (was: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***)
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:45:55 GMT
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- In article <C0JAt3.D4B.1@cs.cmu.edu> flb@flb.optiplan.fi ("F.Baube x554") writes:
- >> Kilogram quantities are probably going to have to be made in space,
- >> not so much for handling reasons (although those aren't trivial)
- >> as because of the sheer amounts of *energy* needed.
- >
- >I hope this means DEEP space, as opposed to Earth orbit.
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- Relax; we're talking giant powersats in Mercury's orbit, or something
- of that scale. Earth orbit is too cramped and doesn't get enough sun.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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