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interesting new space drive idea

interesting new space drive idea

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Fast and Curious

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http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/positron_drive_pluto.html?3062005

zeeblebot

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i hope they don't forget to put the lid on.

"According to Dr. Smith, "for many years physicists have squeezed positrons out of the tungsten targets by colliding the positrons with matter, slowing them down by a thousand or so to use in high resolution microscopes. This process is horribly inefficient; only one millionth of the positrons survive. For space travel we need to increase the slowing down efficiency by at least a factor of one thousand. After four years of hard work with electromagnetic traps in our labs, we are preparing to capture and cool five trillion positrons per second in the next few years. Our long-range goals are five quad-trillion positrons per second. At this rate we could fuel up for our first positron-fueled flight into space in a matter of hours.""

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Neat link. Thanks.

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