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Re: starship-design: This and that.
Steve VanDevender wrote:
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> kyle writes:
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> [ quote of an entire large messsage snipped]
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> I think it's really unnecessary to quote an entire long message when
> your reply is so short.
>
> > Here's a web page:
> >
> > http://mist.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw75.html
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> Already read it, after it was mentioned by Ken Wharton. Besides not
> being a cut-and-dried experiment, it also indicates that _if_ it can be
> scaled up to produce FTL communication, it will need a physical "pipe"
> of waveguides and amplifiers to work at all. Perhaps useful for doing
> land-based FTL communication (again, _if_ it works when scaled up!) but
> by no means a starship drive. It will be interesting to see what comes
> of it.
Imagine how useful this could be to the computer industry! FTL
processing systems, perhaps? Talk about the next generation pentium.
Kyle Mcallister