Best material for an interstellar spaceship ???

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3 total messages Started by Ron Main Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:48

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Author: Ron Main
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:48

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I want to build a spaceship to travel to Tau Ceti Prime next year.

What material do you recommend for such a spaceship? The material must
survive hyperspace travel !

Re: Best material for an interstellar spaceship ???

#495

Author: Uncle Al
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:24

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Ron Main wrote:
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> I want to build a spaceship to travel to Tau Ceti Prime next year.

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> What material do you recommend for such a spaceship? The material must
> survive hyperspace travel !

Scandium-hardened aluminum,

International Materials Reviews 50(1) 19 (2005)

Idiot.

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Re: Best material for an interstellar spaceship ???

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Author: Mark Thorson
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:59

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Ron Main wrote:
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> I want to build a spaceship to travel to Tau Ceti Prime next year.
> 
> What material do you recommend for such a spaceship? The material must
> survive hyperspace travel !

Cork!  It is cheap, an excellent thermal insulator, and
resistant to high temperature.  Also, it is very lightweight.
(Important for any spacecraft.)

An outer surface of mica would provide excellent resistance
to high-energy plasmas (it's used for insulating separators
in thermionic vacuum tube devices), and natural "book" micas
can be split into sheets as thin as 10 microns.  These sheets
are very flexible, not at all brittle.

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