On 7/12/2011 1:53 AM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
>
> I was thrilled as a kid ( 1960s ) by the idea that such a drive existed a=
nd I would be able to go to Mars.  When the Dean Drive did not pan out and =
NASA failed to deliver men to Mars , I was thrown into a depression I have =
never recovered from.  I expected something gigundous would occur along the=
 lines of the science fiction I was reading.  There would be space cadets a=
nd villains and I would be one of them.
>
> 99guspuppet
This one is for real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_drive

I did a little work with this subject as a Lab Tech in 1959. Low output=20
power but continuous acceleration in space soon sums to high velocities!


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