Re: RE: starship-design: Re: starships

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/99 8:16:35 AM, lparker@cacaphony.net writes:

>Kelly,
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>> Sorry its not a nuclear electric propulsion interstellar ramjet,
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>> direct plasma drive.  We gave up on ramjets when we realized there was
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>> little known mass in this area of interstellar space, the scoops
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>> pressed to scoop up as much mass as the scoop gear would weigh.
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>> (I wen't into
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>> that somewhere in the site but can't find it at the moment.
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>> Sorry for the delay geting back to you.  Been crazy around here lately.
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>Timothy seems to be basing this on a non material based scoop design which
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>is bound to be several tons lighter. It is also about 600 times bigger
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>we had envisioned, which might provide sufficient material after all. I
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>believe the difference in density is only a factor of ten locally.
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>Lee


Its been a while but I think we figured we'ld be lucky to scoop in much more
then 200 tons between here and Alpha C, and we were real suspiciaous about any
kind of scop extending one hundreds to thousands of miles weighing less then
that.  Been a couple years thou.

Kelly