VASIMR

I don't think VASIMIR is practical - the power drain is too
high.

George Perkins wrote:
> I think you may be overly concerned about size, mass, and things that
> are not nuclear.

Who are you?

> Lighten up.
>
> We can't start out with nuclear.
>
> We're stuck with mass drivers.

Actually no. ION drives, chemical drives, solar sail, M2P2 etc. etc.

> You can't face this fact. You want to keep harping about nuclear.

Really?

> Nomatter how good nuclear is, it's not a now kind of thing. It
> belongs in the realm of zealots, which you certainly demonstrate
> yourself to be.

Really?

> Now can you please talk about mass drivers or some other alternative
> to nuclear without comparing it to nuclear?

Let's talk about NMR! Now there's a cool tech!

> George
> http://cygo.com
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