Re: antimatter rockets

Mis-read the numbers from my spreadsheet. It takes waay longer to
travel from 3 million km above the sun to 150 million km above the sun
than I wrote. Its not 67 hours 16 minutes - its 67 days 16 hour
transit time - so you need at least two ships to pick up a little over
a ton of anti-matter from each station - every 67 days 16 hours.


A 20 million mile circumference ring 180 meters wide encirling the
sun, could power a sun circling particle accelerator that would
produce anti-matter on a massive scale, using protons scavenged from
the solar wind. On this scale, rather than have fleets of massive
super tanker sized ships flitting between the planets - it would
likely be better to beam the anti-protons to where they're needed from
the ring.

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