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

From: Matthew Montchalin (montch_at_aracnet.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:54:29 -0700

Rob Dekker wrote:
|That's nice for air, but you cannot do the same thing with big objects
|like comets and asteroids that you find on your way to Centauri.
|If they hit the spacecraft engine at spacecraft speed (at 0.001c or
|so) then the spacecraft is no more.

For the most part, earth-based observatories would not be able to
detect the loss of such a ship traveling at 0.001c, but would a
Hubble-type observatory be able to see that kind of a collision?

For ordinary 'particle' sized impacts, wouldn't the ship just keep
going, even if the vehicle lost its ability to support life?

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