From: Philip Witham (p.j.witham@ieee.org)
Date: Sat Jul 24 1999 - 13:07:53 MDT
>> sails, deploy Bussard ramjet, and then scoop interstellar
>> hydrogen.
>
>Use a ramjet and scoop interstellar hydrogen? It sounds
>interesting, basically because I can't visualize how it
>works...
It's been shown that in most of the galaxy, the density of interstellar
hydrogen is too low to feed a Bussard Ramjet and make it work. At this
point it's just an old, discredited sci-fi dream. Try "Tales of Known
Space" by Larry Niven.
-PW
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