I went to the AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference and Nuclear Propulsion in space is still alive and well. One of the ideas I remember is the idea to ignite a small complicated speck of nuclear fuel with anti-protons and compressing it with ion beams to make a small explosion that would propel the ship. I personally would believe that nuclear reactor powered plasma engine like the VASMIR engine would be the best. The field of study is soo great I just wish they would fund it more!
I tried doing this about 5 or 6 years ago
could never get it to work though.
I wonder what their rig is like.
I think it was Kodac that was sponsering
the research using their gold thinfilm
ultrasound transducers. I was just a
coop student and it seemed all kind of
bogus to me. They never would explain to
me the "non-linear effects" of air. Hard
to know how to modulate the source to get
the proper sound. Congrads guy on a tough
dev job. You aced it. And hurry up if
my wife and I get in one more fight about
the radio station it might not be good.
If there was a new language I would like it to be like LabVIEW. LabVIEW is a good language because it uses icons and is graphical. The programmer works faster because people can comprehend pictures faster than writing.
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I went to the AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference and Nuclear Propulsion in space is still alive and well. One of the ideas I remember is the idea to ignite a small complicated speck of nuclear fuel with anti-protons and compressing it with ion beams to make a small explosion that would propel the ship. I personally would believe that nuclear reactor powered plasma engine like the VASMIR engine would be the best. The field of study is soo great I just wish they would fund it more!
I tried doing this about 5 or 6 years ago could never get it to work though. I wonder what their rig is like. I think it was Kodac that was sponsering the research using their gold thinfilm ultrasound transducers. I was just a coop student and it seemed all kind of bogus to me. They never would explain to me the "non-linear effects" of air. Hard to know how to modulate the source to get the proper sound. Congrads guy on a tough dev job. You aced it. And hurry up if my wife and I get in one more fight about the radio station it might not be good.
If there was a new language I would like it to be like LabVIEW. LabVIEW is a good language because it uses icons and is graphical. The programmer works faster because people can comprehend pictures faster than writing.