OT: There goes the Solar neighborhood...literally

[Jack]

--- David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:56:35 -0600, Oren Beck
> <oren_beck at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
> 
> Has anyone else read Gerard O'Neil's "The High
> Frontier"
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189652267X/tipjartransactioA/

I'll have to check it out.

> 
> My reccomendation for an ion rocket is to use iron. 
> Choose a suitable
> iron asteroid,
> set up camp in it, accelerate your iron ions and
> fling them out one
> way, save enough
> mass to decelerate after you get wherever you're
> going, but the
> question of where
> the energy to do all the ion accelerating comes from
> is still up in the air.  
Well, one way would be to use a nuclear fission
reactor. Alternatively, a more conventional power
plant
should work. The main problem is the amount of fuel
needed to power everything. 

Brian D.


		
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