(...) The "drive that works beyond [sic] the heliopause" is the actual stardrive. That's a different technology, a fictional one. The idea is that you have to use the pulse drives to get it to the point where the gravitation of the Sun is (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
(...) momentum from the explosion to the ship are gases released from vapourizing the casing of the bomb. I guess I can envision a dense enough wave of such gases being produced to transfer momentum to the collector shield and cause thrust on the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)