Re: How to really terraform (part 1)

From: Christopher James Huff (cjameshuff_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:29:23 GMT

In article <40CE914D.9040700@tabletoptelephone.com>,
 Hop David <hopspageHATESSPAaMmM@tabletoptelephone.com> wrote:

> A generation star ship would be more expensive. Both would need energy
> to maintain a colony with very little help from the sun. They'd both
> need some sort of closed ecological life support system. In addition,
> the generation star ship would need massive rocket engines, an energy
> budget for propulsion and reaction mass.

It wouldn't need to accelerate for the entire trip...that really would
take a huge amount of fuel. After a certain point, it probably becomes
easier to wait a few more generations than to try to increase speed
further. However, it would have to carry enough to stop at the distant
star... 

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