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Not true. Generating energy is only part - propulsion is hard too. Even if you had a bunch of anti-matter, how do you build a spacecraft that can safely transpo
by davedx 5y ago
Not true. Generating energy is only part - propulsion is hard too. Even if you had a bunch of anti-matter, how do you build a spacecraft that can safely transport humans for years with a propulsion and storage system that uses it? How do you use M-AM annihilation usefully? It’s not like Star Trek.
- BelenusMordred 5y agoWith antimatter propulsion you'd want to use it as its generated rather than the messy business of trying to store it.
- Johnny555 5y agoJust having a chunk of anti-matter isn't really "solving the energy problem", obviously you need to harvest the energy, but I think that given nearly unlimited energy, propulsion is a much easier problem to solve. One possibility is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard#Bussard_ramjet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard#Bussard_ramj...