From: David Blenkinsop (blenl@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 06 1999 - 21:53:49 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:
>
>> Damien Broderick wrote:
>>
>> > No, not if you insist on blowing yourself into space on a swiftly
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>> > column of hot gas. How about my favourite gadget, a Hyde Space Fountain?
>> > . . . Room-temp superconductors would surely help.
>>
>> Damien, why do we need room temp superconductors?
>
>Remember that space is also an excellent insulator, and that the
>launch system (where you really need the big coils) is on the ground.
>
Hyde Space Fountain? Sounds like a neat gadget, can I get one by mail order?
Large-scale ideas for improving on rockets abound, just recently JoSH,
sci.nanotech's moderator, suggested that the easiest way to proceed is to
build a long accelerator on diamondoid towers sticking up out of the
atmosphere: maybe you could call this the "Reading" Spaceroad, but it
certainly wouldn't be the "Short Line" :^)
David Blenkinsop <blenl@sk.sympatico.ca>
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