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Re: Engineering Newsletter

To: hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl
Subject: Re: Engineering Newsletter
From: KellySt@aol.com
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:51:33 -0500
Cc: stevev@efn.org, rddesign@wolfenet.com, RUSSESS@cellpro.cellpro.com, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, bpvanstr@yoho.uwaterloo.ca

> ISM-density. I'm not sure if there are any nearby nebulae.
> Does someone know more about that?


Sorry this area of the galaxy is unusually empty.  No nebula, and the stars
are unusually far apart.

Cooling the engines?  Good point!  The fusion engines I was talking about are
99.9+% efficent, but at the power levels were talking about we'ld melt the
ship.

We seem to have talked oiurselves out of all the engine concepts?  We can't
launch fuel over interstellar distences.  The MARS system seems to need
impossibly large collector arrays, and eiather system would cook the ship.

bummer.

Kelly

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