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Re: starship-design: Rocket Powered Starships...
In a message dated 2/21/00 8:56:19 PM, lparker@cacaphony.net writes:
>If you use a nuclear fusion rocket (Isp~ 10,000s) you only need about a
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>thousand super-tankers. And if you assume that you'll have a super-duper
>Ion
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>or Antimatter rocket (Isp~ 50,000s), well now you only need about ten
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>railway tankers. It gets even worse if you want to get there sooner.
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The spec imp numbers for fusin and anti mat are way off. They are in the
millions as the stuff I wrote up in the explorer class stuff listed. It
makes the numbers less insane. ;)