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  Re: Engine Idea
 
Mladen: Are you kidding? Those engines are junk! Any sane space-engineer knows that it's lunatic to put the floozium injector ports so close to the trilithium uptake valve! The vibrations at peak output could cause the elliptical cam to gradually (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Engine Idea
 
(...) No! No! No! It's all compensated for by the proximity of the doohickey coil. ~Mark XFUT: off-topic.fun (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
 
(...) Ha ha! Your superior weapons are no match for my puny intellect: I override us back to lugnet.space! But seriously - the whole thing with flange rebates and the like - I *do* think in those terms when I'm designing engines, weapons, etc. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
 
LOL, thanks guys! Actually the bars forming the ring are actually magnetic field project to change the direction of the thrust, much like what NASA is proposing to do. The yellow w/ red stripes tanks are, guess what, ACTUALLY fuel tanks ;-). And the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
 
Jeff Elliott wrote in message <396A151F.B78216AD@t...es.com>... (...) I tend to try and keep it pretty simple. Take an antimatter engine/storage-cell - I just postulate a pseudo-science where you can contain an anti-matter plasma (of any mixture of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)  

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