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paulsonjack
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Remember the nuclear-powered rockets on the asteroids in Char's Counterattack? Well:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/
nuclear_power_0301...
Warp drive that far away? or Space Fold? or Etherspace? or Plane Space?
- Vaughner
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Linda2
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Nah, colony drops are next.
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barbostabletos
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There goes Australia . . .
- Vaughner
'Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm a female anime-type character and I'm being attacked by tentacles!!! That means there's only one thing that could happen next!!' - Bimbo Moneymaker, (www.)Exploitation Now(.com)
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ScottCP
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Space?
I remember when I was in high school (I believe that it was in one of the first issues of Omni, 'cause it came out in 1978 and I was in 11th grade then), there was an article that postulated using nuclear drives to create a ship that the writer theorized would be able to attain near-light speed (unmanned, as I recall ^_^).
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glingglo29
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Is that the theory that they would set off a several megaton nuclear explosion just behind the ship, and the blast wave would propel it forwards (actually, they would set off several in succession to keep moving the ship forwards)? BTW, I miss Omni, at least when it first came out. It was my first exposure to authors like Ellison, Silverberg, and artists like H.R.Geiger.
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RichV
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flying... well, REASONABLY near Sydney according to me... I couldn't resist quoting that scene from the beginning of 0083.
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Adnan
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Nuclear powered rockets go back a lot further than Char's Counterattack.
There are a lot of problems with using them, however...
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nrbdo
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That's the Orion Starship; I think the original idea came from a British space society. Something close to that is used in Vernor Vinge's 'Marooned in Realtime' but there's a cheat in that the ships 'bobble' (produced an indestructible statis field) so there's not a much of a need for a humungous blast plate and nothing gets radioactive.
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misha23
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The novel 'Footfall' by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle makes use of a conventional Orion type spacecraft. Conventional meaning that the ship is basically a small life-support system connected to a monstrous blast/radiation shield.
The type of craft the earlier poster was referring to is most likely the Bussard Ramjet, named after Robert Bussard - the physicist who invented the concept. The Bussard Ramjet uses a scoop, physical or electro- magnetic, to funnel primordial deuterium into the ship for burning in it's fusion engine. In theory it could approach lightspeed. However relativistic effects, friction with the interstellar medium and it's ability to take in fuel limit it to a fraction of lightspeed. I don't remember the actual figure, but it wasn't much over .33c.
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