Has the discussion on MTF reaction mass & fuel been collated in a single place? I’m interested in the discussion on the advantages & disadvantages of...
... on Earth ... so, if a feature of the wormhole is that they will automatically adjust velocity based on local gravity to match the velocity and gravity of...
... so we do have another U.F.O.phile here on this list .. and "yes" to the better haircut .. and unfortunately "no" to to the interesting uniforms of the moon...
... What? No purple anti-static wigs for the ladies on the lunar base? Oh well, I'll settle for the see-through mesh tank tops worn by the female crew on the...
... Delta-T? Hydrogen gives you higher exhaust velocity at a given temperature; temperature change is not particularly important. ... Any setting with gas...
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2007-12-Directed_Energy_Report.pdf A nice quote from the prologue: "The Department needs a concerted education effort to...
... I think you're dragging in a privileged reference frame here. Have wormholes A and B. Wormhole ends A1 and B1 are located near planet Uno while ends A2...
... & ... higher ... tanks… ... Gas ... at ... much ... velocity, ... room ... having ... The advantage to water is that you can pretty much use the same ...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/nasa-says-hello-universe-meet-the-beatles/?hp NASA doesn’t often send outgoing mail this way; the last...
... that may be true. i'm not sure. ... planet Uno ... adjustments of the ... should it? A1 and A2 share reference frame A, while B1 and B2 share reference...
... From: "panoptes5" <lwcamp@...> Subject: [sfconsim-l] Re: Rules of thumb for spacecraft design ... i'm not sure how to parse this last. i did check...
... That sounds about right. Not something you would want to be irradiated with. (Sorry for the delay, my internet access was pretty wonky last week). Luke...
... Optimistically, for an x-ray beam diameter d and wavelength L_p, you set L_w=d. I am going to assume that the electron energy is much greater than the...
... In very limited theory, I suppose. In practice, the acceleration required to make the trip have negligible ship time would turn the passengers to goo. -- ...
... Depends on how long they are there, since time dilation is a continual process. First, while it's certainly true that the Milky Way has differential ...
... of ... every ... Which is the primary reason I said "in theory." Of course, it does depend on trip distance, and how short a trip time is considered...
... Also, keep in mind that an X-ray laser can have a large diameter if you're willing to accept a 50% cut in energy and focusing with a secondary spacecraft....
i regret i'm not the one who helped you with whatever. Very likely it was Eric Rozier. http://www.perform.csl.uiuc.edu/People/eric-rozier.html i apologize for...
... With non-linear accelerators (presumably ones that loop back onto themselves, allowing you to make as many circuits as you wish) your energy is limited by...
... around ... your ... Of course, the sort of FEL design you favor suffers from synchrotron radiation losses also. Since only a fraction of the electron...
... Because for a circular accelerator, the timing of the accelerator, and the strength of the magnetic fields used to turn the electrons, varies depending on...
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