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cudabean |
| Date : |
2003-07-08 15:44:34 |
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Re:ammount of free particles in space |
In the latest Discover (Aug., 2003) magazine, there's an article on the feasibility of interstellar travel. (Most of the concepts discussed in this thread are covered. I checked their website and the article is not available online yet.) For their space ram, they describe a collector that is tens of thousands of miles in diameter. It's not a physical collector, it's a magnetic one.
cudabean
Siva wrote :
>Eric, Bruno,
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>At a constant accel, would you need a really big collector? You'll be covering more space as you accelerate, so more and more ions can be collected.
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>Siva |
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Re:ammount of free particles in space
( 2003-07-08 15:44:34)