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Old October 3rd, 2005, 02:54 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Tabitha
Men... you got it all wrong, the bulge under the old girl is from giving birth to the RTF... duh..... its just old age pudge. No biggee, in a few light years it can firm up a bit and with some Oil of Olay, it can be almost gone. No biggee.

Seriously though, I read in Popular Science about a type of propulsion that NASA had considered, it used nuke drives fed with some kind of ion particles that would create more thrust than just a series of nukes. I wish i had kept that issue, it got wet (rained on my Jeep with the top down) and got ruined (with some other mags you guys proabably wouldnt be intersted in). I think it was something to do with helium ion or something because the gas was stable and all until it broke down in the nuke furnace, then it became terribly dynamic.
Anyhow, in theory, the ions were so excited that they gave off some wierd kind of pulsing that they wernt sure about, which is why it never saw the light of day, but they think it may have been the first sign of gravity being thrown off from the furnace. If that was true, then that might be the first gravity drive. Wouldnt that push the Gal faster than light speed, since grativons are faster than light, as gravity takes effect before the light or sound of a singularity effects another? Im not sure, I read the stuff, but honestly, Im usually more interested in Cosmopolitan than Cosmology.

tabbi
That sounds like a hydrogen boron rocket.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/...n_systems.HTML

or VASIMR;

http://www.engin.swarthmore.edu/~tcronin1/VASIMR.htm
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