What is the thrust to mass ratio of the engines and this craft????
Are you limited by physical size or is size not a problem????
Just a few base questions that are needed....
At 12:30 AM 5/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Everyone,
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>I am going to ask my question again. If you would please answer it I would
>greatly appreciate it. In this question lets simply assume that time
>dilation, mass increase, and space warping does not occur when one
>accelerates to and past the speed of light. Hey, you might think that I am
>wrong and that time dilation, mass increase, and/or space warping does occur
>when one accelerates to and/or beyond the speed of light. But for this
>question please just THEORETICALLY assume that these SR and GR things do not
>occur....
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>So here is my question.
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>How much fuel would it take for a conventional space craft (rocket or ion)
>to accelerate at a constant rate of speed to twice the speed of light? How
>much fuel would it take? Would it be possible to build such a craft?
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>Please answer this question without discussing how it is impossible to
>travel FTL conventionally.
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>Best Regards,
>William
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