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- From: edm@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
- In-Reply-To: MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12: 02:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <EDM.93Jan21100739@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07:39 GMT
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- >>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:02:47 GMT, MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus Lindroos INF) said:
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- MLI> Any idea what kind of engines the "Discovery" and "Alexei Leonov" of "2010 -
- MLI> Odyssey Two" were using? Obviously, they have to be pretty fuel-efficient [=an
- MLI> exhaust velocity of at least 25km/s] since neither craft seems to have much
-
- Hmm, It's been a while since I read 2001, although I saw the movie
- this weekend, so I don't remember if they went into any details. I do
- know that 2010 does have a blurb on the Leonov's engines. You may
- want to grab a paperback and check it out. My failing memory tells
- me it used some sort of "low" temp muon catalyzed fusion. I think
- Luis Alvarez was supposed to have done the theoretical work for it.
- (In the book, that is, although Clarke derived some details from
- Alvarez's actual work)
- --
- Ed McCreary ,__o
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