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To: JRandomFreeper

I think project Deadelus is the correct route to take. I believe the Bussard ram jet was one of preferred propulsion systems after VASIMIR.

Like so many of these things, bigger really is better as long as you don’t have to heft it off the surface of the earth.

34 posted on 05/17/2012 7:53:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

To: cripplecreek

I still like the star-wisp idea. Lots of probes, massing in the grams, pushed by lasers to a respectable % of lightspeed.

Cheap, for some values of cheap, and lots of redundancy.

And it gives us about 50 years to work out the tech to hear them when they get there.

/johnny

35 posted on 05/17/2012 8:05:12 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)

To: cripplecreek

I just noticed that we're arguing about HOW to do it, not if it can be done. ;) Funny how that changes the world.

/johnny

36 posted on 05/17/2012 8:08:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)

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