VASIMR

>

I've already addressed that.

We need to focus on non-nuclear.

Your obsession with nuclear is causing you to blink.

Careful.

(lol)

George
http://cygo.com/

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Ryan Healey wrote:
>
> --- 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?
>
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