Re: Laser snipers

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:14:55 -0500, devans@uneb.edu wrote:

>I thought that was the idea; chem and/or nuclear drive for significant
>fractions of 1G, light drive for 0.00000000000... G, for STL
interstellar.
>Very low thrust, but next to no reaction mass, and very efficient over
the
>very long haul.

That's what I remember. Basically it involved pushing something like a
probe.
You didn't move it very fast, but it was constant acceleration.
Eventually it
would be moving at a pretty good clip. It also meant you didn't have to
take
your fuel with you, which made the payload even smaller.

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