RE: Re: Re: The fuelsail is stupid (was starship-design: Hull Materials)

["L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

On Monday, November 17, 1997 11:52 AM, KellySt@aol.com 
[SMTP:KellySt@aol.com] wrote:

> Orion has a poor spec imp and mass ratio, but your right it, or laser
> fusion,
> or a couple other designs are within present tech.  (Give or take a 
decade
> to
> develop and test the systems.)
>
Engineering test beds are running right now...


Lee

                                                      (o o)
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Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men;

William Allingham, Ireland, 1850