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| try "anti-matter" fuel cells...(use your imagination here)...you could travel to mars and back on like 1 atom of it. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You too? (...) Oops. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Assume that a mile is 1.6 km, because dammit, you don't calculate these things in imperial (you'd need g in miles/sec. Ugh.) (...) All right. x == v0 * t + 0.5 * a * t x == 57.6e9 m v0 == 0 (this means I'm calculating from reaching orbit, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) about (...) take (...) if you thought THAT was amazing, try it to Pluto... or to Alpha Centauri! RAH (1) did a science fact article on this, way before most of us were born. It drives home how fast you can go if you can just keep accelerating. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Paper mache rockets? The delivery system burns up with the fuel it contains? __ :-O (Edvard Munch's "The Scream") -- Bruce (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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