Monthly Archives: January 2010

Antimatter Rockets & “Avatar”

Brian Wang, at “Next Big Future”, reports on the conceptual ancestor of the ISV “Venturestar” from Giga-Movie “Avatar”. As he notes, the designer is Charles Pellegrino, long-time friend and colleague of James Cameron, and inventor, with Jim Powell, of the … Continue reading

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Odds & Sods News, Australia Day 2010

Callisto & Ganymede, twin moons of Jupiter, yet so unalike. Why? Dr Amy Barr and Dr Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) believe the two moons diverged in their evolutionary paths about 3.8 million years ago, during the … Continue reading

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Project Icarus

“Project Daedalus” now has a sequel, “Project Icarus”, which promises a smarter, better design… http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/ …look for the Terms of Reference and see what’s planned to be discussed and thrashed out over the next 5 years. Some very cool “Project … Continue reading

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On A Diamond Sea

Next Big Future reports on Diamond Oceans. Apparently the Lawrence Livermore National Lab has been doing ultra-pressure experiments on diamond, getting up to 4 TPa (40 Mbar) then dropping the pressure and temperature to examine what phase changes occur. Seems … Continue reading

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Deuterium Fusion Starships IV

Friedwardt Winterberg’s fusion pulse driven space vehicles initiate fusion by injecting a rapid jolt of energy into the fusion target causing an implosion to high density fast enough that the fuel fuses before being blown apart and loses energy to … Continue reading

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