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Re: Ship Power Core
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:40:27 GMT
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"Tobias Möller" wrote:
> "cabrionic engines"? "matter hypercompressor generator"?
> Can someone please tell me what´s wrong with the good old-fashioned rocket
> engines :-)?
To a certain extent, ramjets and ion drives are rocket-ish. The reasoning for
alternate powerplants is because rockets are extremely high consumers of space,
power, and so forth; if one can derive one's power from the fields all around
them, and basically "ride" the curvature of space, the power supply is virtually
inexhaustible.
Gene Mallove and Greg Matloff wrote an excellent book on subluminal flight
methods--they discount superluminality for the reason that it changes the game,
and that there's nothing superluminal even on the horizon so it's pie in the sky
even to worry about it right now (John and Tim, want to chime in here on your
subluminal ships' propulsion systems?). It's called _The Starflight Handbook_
(New York: Wiley and Sons, 1989). While it's a bit old, it's still a very good
primer to the issues and physics surrounding nuclear rockets (or nuclear pulse
propulsion), ion drive, solar sails, and cryogenics. I suppose a "rocket" would
still be viable, if it had a sufficiently high specific impulse (ratio of power
to mass) and thus a good acceleration.
best,
Lindsay
---
Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr)
Department of History
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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| Hi there, You've got to love these fantasy-tech discussions that spring out of the desire to model spaceships in Lego! To all of you who have posted pictures: love your designs. They have the no-nonsense look of real machines. (...) O.K., Tobias, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) try: (...) cylinder. (...) the (...) two (...) the (...) a (...) gravity). (...) different (...) gravity (...) superluminal (...) "cabrionic engines"? "matter hypercompressor generator"? Can someone please tell me what´s wrong with the good (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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