 | | Re: LRS —Kirby Warden
| | | | In lugnet.space, Mark Neumann writes: <snip> (...) "schwaaaaaaas"? (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: LRS —Mark Neumann
| | | | | (...) Yeah, my rendition of ion engines, like the Tie fighters in Star Wars. (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LRS —John Henry Kruer
| | | | | (...) Actually, if your LRS was an atmospheric craft, and it schwaaaaaaad, it wouldn't go anywere. To be realistic, an ion engine produces as much thrust in weight as a piece of paper, while a rocket uses thrust equal to the weight of a couple (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LRS —Mark Neumann
| | | | | (...) Really? I didn't know that. But really as far as I'm concerned I don't care how it works, just as long as it sounds real cool. :) (...) So how do they work? (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LRS —John Henry Kruer
| | | | | (...) That is the point, isn't it. :-) (...) Well, zenon (a gas) is shot out outof the inside wall of a chamber, along with electrons going through a cathode(or something like that) tube. The electrons knock of an electron from the zeneon gas, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
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