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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now let’s see them slow it down once it’s going.


3 posted on 06/30/2015 8:57:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Now let’s see them slow it down once it’s going.”

True, but any “free fuel” you don’t have to carry is a Good Thing. With a nuclear powered ion rocket engine, solar pressure going away from the sun and using the rocket to come back would be viable. Slow to accelerate and decelerate, but doable especially on an unmanned flight.


5 posted on 06/30/2015 9:09:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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