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"directed energy stream of sufficient quantity" sounds like a jet engine, which exists. if you're proposing something more powerful than that... that sounds li
by paulmd 6y ago
"directed energy stream of sufficient quantity" sounds like a jet engine, which exists.
if you're proposing something more powerful than that... that sounds like a fantastic weapon. Someone get the Pentagon on the horn, let's get this shit funded!
With apologies to Larry Niven: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
- marshmallow_12 6y agosteam engines were replaced by oil, and then, the rulebook was rewritten when jets were invented. That was 80 years ago. Jets are old. We need to minimise the moving parts. To do so we need to increase the density of stored energy so more can be used. The answer is atoms. Not old fashioned uranium atoms, but fresh, new fusion reactors. They shall create not heat, but clean electricity. It is long overdue. Even professor calculus knew that the best way to get tintin to the moon was by using nuclear energy. We need to reinvent the plane, not make a better version.
- WalterBright 6y agoA solid fuel rocket engine has no moving parts.
- marshmallow_12 6y agowe need an blinding flash of technological innovation to illuminate this century, not dissimilar to last centurys mushroom cloud.
- imtringued 6y agoYou mean graphene...?