starship-design: Re: Spacedrive

[KellySt@aol.com]

Dear Thorsteinn Olafsson,

Thanks for your interest, but I'm no longer with NASA and the LIT site never 
had any funding to do research and development.  Nor do we have connections 
to aquire any.

Its sounds like you have a theoretical concept with no working hardware.  
This will make it VERY hard to interest any investors, even if your concept 
was less exotic.  You'll need either the support of a very well respected 
scientist or institution (who will support your claim of a very promising 
breakthrough), or you will need a testable prototype you can demonstrate to 
the public and investors.  At the moment even the first would be unlikely to 
get you investor support unless the device would offer MASSIVE profit.  Even 
designers with fusion reactor designs considered promising by the US 
government, can find little funding.

Sorry I have no helpful advice.

Good luck.

Kelly Starks




In a message dated 2/21/02 9:12:22 PM, energy@isl.is writes:

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>I saw your website and was thinking whether you were still in on the 
spaceprogram
>and to design vehicles or technologies for such purpose? The reason I ask
>this is because I am an inventor which have a spacedrive technology that
>might open up space for us. I have been trying to introduce my project
>to several sources but the agencies and institutions I have contacted seem
>to be running their program on some strick schedule. This means that to
>manage to do something like this or deal with more unconventional 
technologies
>it have to be financed by the private sector and a people with an open
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>I might be a pretty good inventor but my sources becomes very poor when
>comes to financial issues or to fund something like this. In that case
>I was thinking whether it would be possible to join forces in these matters?
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>I have of course details over my technologies but the technologies are
>mathematically proven where very simple and positive tests have been done
>but where the technology still needs further development of course. The
>physics behind this also explains certain factors in our environment or
>in conventional physics which still have not been explained or understood.
>In that case what is good about this technology is that if I am correct
>about this which I think I am then the calculations showes pretty clear
>how much thrust the spacedrive gives out compared to size and weight. At
>certain point I was aiming at the Xprize competiton but that is not the
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>As I said before then I need fund regarding this project to be able to
>continue and in my mind this spacedrive technology could look quite promising
>even though certain technical factors must be solved. This technology is
>very simple and will be cheap to build.
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>Just so you know then I am not joking about this.
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>Sincerely
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>Thorsteinn Olafsson
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>Reykjavik, Iceland