Re: minsky vs solar sails

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat Jul 24 1999 - 15:56:25 MDT


Rik van Riel writes:

> Use a ramjet and scoop interstellar hydrogen? It sounds
> interesting, basically because I can't visualize how it
> works...

Unfortunately, you intuition is not very well equipped when dealing
with bulk matter interacting relativistic particle streams.



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