Space Settlement FAQ's]

--- In spacesettlers, Monart Pon wrote:

> Fowarding Dennis May's response to Mike Combs

Beamed power can provide as much power to a spaceship as a nuke
plant, and without as much weight. Also, lazer-pushed lightsails are
a good possibility.I suspect that nuke ships will only be useful for
those missions where having your ship independant of an external
power source is important. A millitary ship might be one such case.

Xenophile (who would like to see a space battle in a movie where the
fighters make realistic manuevers... which would look pretty cool 8^)