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Re: LRS
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:44:44 GMT
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> 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,
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. :)
> while a rocket uses thrust equal to the
> weight of a couple warehouses full of paper. Ion engines are next to
> useless on planets. (I did a science report on them for school)
So how do they work?
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| (...) 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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| (...) 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)
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