Re: starship-design: Re: Re: Fwd: Re: starship design

[bfranchuk <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

KellySt@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >KellySt@aol.com writes:
>  >> You have a lot of numbers, but I don't know where you
> >> got them from.  How does a 20,000 pound engine with
> >> shielding give 600,000 pounds of sustained
>  >> thrust?  Where do you get those weight numbers from?
> 
> > Uh, Kelly, an engine can produce more thrust than its weight.
> 


I would like to see the detailed math for the thrust, so I
can do the calculations myself. Right now
anti-matter production not very practical, anybody got ideas for 
that.( anybody for huge solar anti-matter production plants in orbit 
around the sun. ?) I  assume the thrust is for over a year so that
is very good engine.