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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Fusion
Message-ID: <447@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 22:09:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 22:09:46 1986
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Reply-To: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
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In article <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].846118.860310.KFL> KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
("Keith F. Lynch") writes:
>
>Interstellar spaceships should be fusion powered.

Actually, unless the "ramscoop" principle is used for acquiring
fuel for fusion, I'd think that interstellar spaceships should
be anti-matter powered -- it is vastly more efficient.  Where
do you get the anti-matter fuel, you might well ask.  Answer:  
you make it on Earth -- or, better yet, in space -- perhaps
using fusion to power the synthesis.  Then store the anti-matter
fuel on board ship -- carefully segregated from normal matter.  

-- 

Michael McNeil
3Com Corporation     "All disclaimers including this one apply"
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