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Article #7275Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:29
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:29
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In article <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper) writes:
>However, it still seems to me that carbon-catalyzed may be a great way to
>go. 1) your carbon keeps coming back ...
I think if you look into it, you'll find that *you can't get adequate
burn rates* just by throwing in some carbon. It simply isn't that easy,
not unless you assume truly fantastic chamber conditions.
Bear in mind, too, that you're likely to lose a good bit of carbon out
the tailpipe... especially if you're trying to build a scramjet.
>2) you won't have to carry
>around what I see as becoming GIGANTIC amounts of antimatter...
The amounts of antimatter get huge only when you start trying to achieve
seriously relativistic velocities.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP *** Message-ID: <C0GH9C.DA@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:29:35 GMT References: <C0CKyt.7o0@zoo.toronto.edu> <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19