Re: starship-design: LINAC efficiency

[KellySt@aol.com]

>Starship journeys done right, at a constant 1 g boost to turnover, then
>a
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>constant 1 g boost (the other way) to destination, will all take just about
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>the same amount of subjective ship time, whether you are going 4 light
>years
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>or 400 light years. That's because the real traveling you're doing, is
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>mostly done during that hectic period near the turn around, while time
>in
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>the stationary universe goes whizzing by too fast for you to notice it.

Of course we haven't even any theoretical idea on how to build a sustain 1G 
thrust for months at a time.  So your ideas mear fantasy.  Might as well talk 
about faster then light drives.






>
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>My version of the ram scoop, you may notice, is not attatched to the ship
>by
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>material structures. It floats out ahead of the ship a ways, consisting
>of
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>thin rings pushed out there by light pressure from lasers, as I said, or
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>pushed out there by neutral beams, as I didn't say.  These don't have to
>be
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>turned around, but the rest of the ship does. My LINAC is going to be long,
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>and it bothers me to have to turn it around, especially in a hurry.


How do you push, and even more difficult - pull them at 1 g?