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Article #7794Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
From: James C. Benz
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1989 19:34
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1989 19:34
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In article <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >Nonsense. Supplying artificial gravity using centrifugal force is no big >deal, although getting the radius long enough to avoid inner-ear problems >is certainly a nuisance. People have designed current-technology Mars >missions which have artificial gravity. Well, if you are going to assume *lots* of relatively free fusion energy, why not just accelerate at 1G or some appreciable fraction thereof, until you are halfway there, then turn around and decelerate at the same rate? Voila. Artificial gravity with no inner ear problems. And no coriolis. Just a brief period of 0G at turnaround. An old Sci-Fi trick that still works. If going to the outer planets or the asteroid belt, trip times of a few weeks or months sound about right. -- Jim Benz jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu If a modem University of Pittsburgh answers, UCIR (412) 648-5930 hang up!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!jcbst3 From: jcbst3@cisunx.UUCP (James C. Benz) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications? Message-ID: <17272@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 3 Apr 89 19:34:10 GMT References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <296@v7fs1.UUCP> <5849@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 17