starship-design: Re: Solarfm

[Kelly St <KellySt@aol.com>]

In a message dated 12/23/97 7:31:18 PM, you wrote:

>Salutations
>
>Just out of curosity, where is your powersource? If it doesn't take up to
much
>energy, how big of a magnetic field would you need to repel things away from
the
>ship? instead of storing dust and then retracting  it, why not use a giant
magnet?

Objects impacting at 1/3rd light speed might be imposible to deflect in time.
Thou it is worth checking.

The power source is another fusion reactor.

Kelly