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Article #7401Re: Making Antimatter (was: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:45
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:45
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In article <C0JAt3.D4B.1@cs.cmu.edu> flb@flb.optiplan.fi ("F.Baube x554") writes:
>> 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.
Relax; we're talking giant powersats in Mercury's orbit, or something
of that scale. Earth orbit is too cramped and doesn't get enough sun.
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