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  1. Xref: sparky sci.physics:21875 rec.arts.startrek.tech:7158
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!jdsiegel
  3. From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.startrek.tech
  5. Subject: Re: Accellerating Spaceship (yet another bird in a plane)
  6. Date: 30 Dec 1992 07:21:45 GMT
  7. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  8. Lines: 15
  9. Message-ID: <1hrim9INNhk0@agate.berkeley.edu>
  10. References: <ewright.725142689@convex.convex.com> <5ymFwB5w165w@scilab.lonestar.org> <ewright.725660501@convex.convex.com>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <ewright.725660501@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
  14. >For example, if you had two chunks of matter, one negative and
  15. >one positive, the negative chunk would move away from the positive
  16. >chunk because of repulsion.  However, the positive chunk would move
  17. >toward the negative chunk, trying to catch up.  So, toss a chunk of
  18. >negative matter out the door of your spaceship, and away you go!
  19. >
  20.  
  21. Ahhh... perpetual motion?  That could be better than warp drive! :-)
  22.  
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu    jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
  26. "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
  27. affairs which properly concern them."  - Paul Valery
  28.