wa146@sdcattb.UUCP (06/05/83)
Ion rockets are silly! Any halfway intelligent spacegoing gent would use fusion power. This would consist of a chamber with a thrust tube leading out the back. The hydrogen is squirted into the chamber, confined in magnetic fields as a plasma, heated up by a laser, and proceeds to do fusion. When fusion happens, the reaction is too much for the fields, which turn off, and the hydrogen blasts out the tube. Tadaa!! No weakling ion rockets. With fusion, a little rocket will really boogie. Brian Sutin sdcsvax!sdcattb!wa146 PS Don't say this is farfetched. Fusion will be here in 20 years.