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 antimatter-propelled “Valkyrie” starship.
Valkyrie Starship at Pellegrino’s website
Valkyrie at the BBC
Archive of excellent antimatter propulsion papers at Penn State U
Winchell Chung’s Valkyrie discussion
…’nuff said. I’ve been trawlling my archives and just discovered some old papers to read, so ‘night all.