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