Re: starship-design: HOTOL SeaDragon idea.

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/5/02 2:09:56 PM, stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu writes:

>The situation with fusion power is worse, but in some ways not too much
>worse; there you need something like a 1,000,000 :: 1 ratio of fusion
>fuel :: payload.  That's a lot of fuel, but it's much easier to store
>that much hydrogen than it is to store the much smaller amount of
>antimatter in the case above.==

And a lot of fusion fuels ae sold materials that don't need tanks, and ae 
pretty dense.




>I keep intending to put together a sort of breezy summary of the various
>interstellar travel scenarios that have been considered and their
>various tradeoffs, partly to get some newer list members up to date, but
>mainly in the hopes it will revive active discussion on the list.

Yeah, thought of that to.  Never get around to it eaither.

;)