Re: Interstellar Propulsion idea using an Asteroid and a few comets!

From: AA Institute (abdul.ahad_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: 4 Sep 2004 00:31:27 -0700

"N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<J_mYc.5691$bT1.47@fed1read07>...
> Dear AA Institute:
>
> "AA Institute" <abdul.ahad@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> > Great idea. I'll put this one in as an alternative to docking with the
> > comet, especially in the "mid-range territory", where the orbital
> > speeds slow right down. With my standard practice of having to slow
> > down and dock for mining via a robotic arm, I'd be slowing down for
> > one comet, speeding up, then slowing down for the next comet, ...
> >
> > Why not just blow the thing up with long range missiles ahead of you
> > and just scoop up the fragments as you go?
> >
> > Thanks for that bit of lateral thinking!
>
> Somewhat less serious...
> Shape surfaces on the "plow" asteroid like the counter in/near your
> customary entryway. Mine always picks up "thrustable material"... ;>)
>
> David A. Smith

I have added an engineering schematic for the ship's provisional
design blueprint:-

http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/restricted/interstellar-propulsion.html#blueprint

This is entirely based on my own "envisioning" of course. I am sure
there are far more esteemed engineering experts, who may point out
flaws and potential bottlenecks which I have overlooked.

Well, the stage is now set for 200 years of great *manned* spaceflight
adventure to come! First on the Moon, then on Mars, and by 2200 A.D.
on an interstellar voyage toward Alpha Centauri on the Aster-Com
starship ...
Here's what a column of the New York Times in A.D. 2200 might have to
say:-

"After a series of complex, gravity assisted fly bys invloving the
giant outer planets Jupiter and Saturn over the past 5 years, the
Aster-Com starship is now on a firm interstellar escape trajectory
heading out of our solar system toward the general direction of its
immensely distant goal of Alpha Centauri.

Onboard this epic voyage of such historic importance are crew and
passengers comprising 860 men, women and children who have become
planet Earth's first star travellers. Amongst them are descendants of
all those distinguished online scientists and astronomers who first
debated this spaceflight concept in a primitive online discussion
forum then called "usenet", back in 2004.

The spacecraft's originator, Abdul Ahad, who envisioned both the
asteroid-comet means of interstellar propulsion and first drafted a
scientific blueprint for this mission nearly 200 years earlier, was
not immediately available for comment..."

AA Institute
http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/

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