VASIMR

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

Despite the facts that these things can make a mission impossible.

Try moving a small space probe with 600 m long solar panels. Would it be easy?

> Lighten up.
>
> We can't start out with nuclear.

Maybe not, but we can try. If we try at first it may make it somewhat easier
to get it later on.

> We're stuck with mass drivers.

Not just mass drivers, Solar Steam Rockets would do fine.

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

Your starting to sound like a zealot yourself.

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

Why should we ignore nuclear?