Fusion rocket to LEO

[Moontanman]

Has any one else seen this?

 

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA426465&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

 

Lots of really unusual stuff

 

The IEC/IEF concept was originally pioneered by Farnsworth (1956) and became largely dormant for

over two decades, but it was later revived and revised by Bussard and coworkers (Bussard, 1989, 1990,

1991, 1992, 1993, 1997; Krall, 1992; Bussard and Jameson, 1993, 1994, 1995; Bussard et al., 1993;

Froning and Bussard, 1993, 1998; Froning, 1997; Bussard and Froning, 1998; Watrus et al., 1998;

Froning et al., 2001) and Miley and coworkers (Nadler et al., 1992; Miley et al., 1993; Barnes and Nebel,

1993; Miley et al., 1994; Satsangi et al., 1994; Miley et al., 1995; Nadler et al., 2000). It is also of

historical interest to note that P. T. Farnsworth is the inventor of television (Everson, 1949). Bussard and

Miley and their coworkers discovered a way to configure the IEC device for electric power and space

propulsion applications using modern engineering-physics and materials technology.

 

And the really wild stuff starts at page 58, almost sounds like techobabble from star trek....

Edited July 15, 2011 by Moontanman

[Realitycheck]

Yeah, I've read a lot of stuff on there before. The stuff that is really far out there is really loosely cited or not cited at all, like the Alcubre? drive and the wormholes which show a simple diagram and description, but give no explanation whatsoever for how to create or exploit a wormhole, much less how to map one to a specific location. Pure speculation that plays on peoples' enthrallment with science fiction. "Like, all you have to do is FOLD SPACE, man. Cut out all the riff raff. See your way through."

[Moontanman]

The engineering the vacuum part seemed almost star trek like, making light go faster by using zero point energy fluctuations seems a little unusual...