Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread LARRY KLAES
Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space   http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/antimatter_sail_021029.htmlTo Steve Howe, a trip to Pluto is small potatoes. That most distant planet orbits about 40 times further from the Sun than the Earth. But that's not even half as far as

Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/31/2002 6:50:48 AM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/antimatter_sail_021029.html To Steve Howe, a trip to Pluto is small potatoes. That most distant planet orbits

Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space > > http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/antimatter_sail_021029.html [snip] > Chalk it up to Gail Leatherwood's file on 'unobtainium'. Oh well. At least >

Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/31/2002 5:43:58 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it doesn't ("give us perspective").  I work in the "obtainium" field and there is lots of it to go around.  Antimatter is cheap if you have a self-replicating system that can produce it (and you are willi

Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My comments: > 'Antimatter is cheap IF you have a self-replicating system that can produce > it, and IF you are willing to discard energy that might otherwise be > dedicated to potentially more useful pursuits'. > > Do you have such a system? If no

Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

2002-10-31 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/31/2002 6:36:46 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But can you present any evidence that you are not an individual attempting to promote an idea that "flight is impossible" in December of 1902, a year before the Wright Brothers took off? Certainly.  In 1902