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If anyone is interested, these researchers from Russia have proposed a way to accelerate a spaceship while in flight – firing a ground-based laser up its backsi
by clumsysmurf 12y ago
If anyone is interested, these researchers from Russia have proposed a way to accelerate a spaceship while in flight – firing a ground-based laser up its backside
http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2014/supersonic_laser-propelled_rockets/ http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/20...
- neurobro 12y agoWell that seems less preposterous than my own idea of using lasers to accelerate a ring of air, generating a plasma circuit that would pull the craft up magnetically. (Version 2 would have a series of plasma rings that the craft would fly through like a coil gun.)