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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

VARIES project proposes antimatter starship mission


As Douglas Adams said, “Space is Big. Really Big." And that’s the major obstacle for travelling between the stars. But a new proposal published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society promises to shrink that distance just a bit. Physics and technology consultant Richard Obousy claims that an antimatter starship that creates its own fuel from the vacuum of space itself would be capable of making a return journey to the nearest star and back within one lifetime... Continue Reading VARIES project proposes antimatter starship mission
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3 comments:

  1. jabrwokThursday, 19 July 2012 at 09:04:00 GMT-7

    Beaming info back rather than returning the ship/probe itself seems, as one of the commenters notes, both faster and more cost-effective.

    I'm curious about the logic of taking massive solar panels along on the trip. Why not just double the magnetic bottles and take more anti-matter? Though if the ship is an unmanned probe then there's no need to get it back at all.

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  2. CambiasThursday, 19 July 2012 at 09:41:00 GMT-7

    I don't wish to sound mean, but some of the comments on your article are dumb enough to make my hair hurt. I can't even figure out what the first person is trying to say.

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  3. jayessellSunday, 22 July 2012 at 14:49:00 GMT-7

    If it can make antimatter out of nothing, don't send it away, put it in Lunar orbit, collect the antimatter for fuel.

    But...
    This sounds suspisciously like powering a refrigerator with Maxwell's Deamons.

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