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Old 16-October-2003, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by eburacum45
I would suggest we go for a fusion -pulse type drive, which would be smoother; rather than dump h-bombs out the back and expect the shock absorbers to smooth the ride out, we should be looking at fusing tiny pellets of deuterium/He3 by laser almost continually, the pulses would be so short you could hardly feel them.
The pulsed fusion rocket is at the bottom of this page;
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_rocket
The technology on that is just a bit far off, don't ya think?
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