electrical propulsion

[hello1]

Dear Sir,

 

I wonder if this method is viable.

 

If a space ship beams enough electrons to a near by body, the positive charged space ship will be accelerating to the negative changed body.

 

Or maybe we can etectrify the space around a space ship to propulsion in some way.

 

Thank you for help!

 

Sincerely,

 

Joe

[YT2095]

something similar to that already exists, it`s a Xenon based ion drive.

there`s not a fantastic amount of thrust, but that which is present is Very fast!

[Red_Ninja]

Yeah the Ion Drive looks like it might be a reasonably effective way of getting probes about the solar system. Sort of the flipside from a chemical rocket, very very light thrust (I've read about it being compared to the weight of a sheet of paper) but it keeps going and going and in the vaccum of space it eventually builds up to truly tremendous speeds, of course over a very long time !

[bascule]

My favorite electric propulsion idea is Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion, which basically operates on the same idea as solar sails, but surrounds a ship in its own mini-magnetosphere which protects the ship and its occupants from stray radiation and other particles in space.

[swansont]

something similar to that already exists' date=' it`s a Xenon based ion drive.

there`s not a fantastic amount of thrust, but that which is present is Very fast! [/quote']

 

I don't think the OP was talking about action/reaction force drive. He's proposing charging up the target so there's an electrostatic force between two objects.

[hello1]

Yes, thank you!

 

Do you know why they closed the shout the moon thread?

[Bio-Hazard]

Could it be you linked your site's forum to SFN?

[Mokele]

::Goes and looks::

 

Dear god, that site is crap. And the graphics look like they were drawn by a retarded monkey.

 

The link to the "Forum" just shows Hello1 here at another forum, where they tell him *precisely the same thing we did*. Gee, those pesky facts, they just keep turning up to ruin your plans.

 

I suggest that Hello1 leave physics alone and concentrate on preparing for a job in his most likely future field. Remember to ask "Do you want fries with that?".

 

Mokele

[hello1]

that's a lot of body attact!

[swansont]

Yes' date=' thank you!

 

Do you know why they closed the shout the moon thread?[/quote']

 

 

"when I got this idea, was drunk on highlife beer."

 

You have to ask? Or, if you have to ask, it's pointless to try and explain.

 

But it was closed before I got a chance to say that the moon is already accelerating toward the earth.

[ctc7752]

Ion propulsion is quite possible and very cost effective. The formula to construct this device is E=MC2. You just need to know what the letters mean.