Peace!
\Aaron
Andy Robert Steinberg wrote:
>Ho! I'm also a space buff. To travel to the planets and the stars will
>require
>great energy among other things like fine astronauts and radiation shielding.
>Nuclear power as used in Voyager and Cassini is very safe, especially when
>compared
>to a theoretical starship design called Orion, which could reach 0.3c by
>jettisoning
>nuclear bombs a distance behind itself and riding the shock waves. This would
>leave
>long trails of highly radioactive material everywhere Orion goes, in essence
>causing
>massive pollution of outer space. The Orion Project long ago was scrapped,
>and rightly
>so. Fusion and anti-matter are the next logical steps for spaceship power,
>the Buzzard
>Ramjet still has too many problems to solve in the near future. I believe
>that the
>latest research into particle physics has allowed antiprotons to be stored
>safely for
>12 hours before they decay. Far-off energy sources may be derived from small
>black
>holes, or from converting matter directly into energy.
>
>andy
>