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Making Antimatter (was: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***)

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From: "F.Baube x554"
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 12:02
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Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> writes:
> A production setup the size of the Hanford works ..
> Kilogram quantities are probably going to have to be made in space, 
> not so much for handling reasons (although those aren't trivial)
> as because of the sheer amounts of *energy* needed.

I hope this means DEEP space, as opposed to Earth orbit.
If this operation were run like Hanford or Rocky Flats 
or any other such shining example of US atomic management,
I'd rather be on Mars thank you when there's a leak.

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