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Article #7345Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
From: Jon J Thaler
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:03
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:03
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) says: > Kilogram quantities of antimatter are quite adequate for early interstellar > probes, given modest vehicles. I don't have numbers for the antimatter- > fuelled ramjet on hand, but it *has* been studied and it looks plausible. A reality check: This is about 13 orders of magnitude larger than the total number of antiprotons ever created and stored (about 10**14)
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