Recent content by Frag

Thanks sandrow. Im certainly not trained in any of this stuff, just crazy idea's over flowing from my brains! How about photon pressure and tight beam lasers/mirrors as opposed to propellent?

yeah that pretty much sums it up ---------- Post added at 12:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:30 AM ---------- ok, hows this... replace railguns with a bussard ramjet design. Have ship A fire all of its propellent at ship B, wait until the propellant reaches B, then fire it back at...

Hi rising fury, all input is hugely welcomed. I'm just throwing idea's about. I think i might have already taken that into your point into account. The launching of multiple drones... As each drone is launched it starts in the same rest frame as the mothership, giving you that boost of a few...

A most welcome post, very interesting. However, perhaps the thread title was somewhat misleading. My apologies. I meant the idea as a proposal using modern scientific theory, as opposed to technology. I meant using things like propellant, chemical/fission energy and celestial mechanics as...

Fair enough, t'was a request for comments after all. So what's the show stopper?

Hey guys, its a bit of a mission to read, but maybe the idea is worth the effort: Rockets are great for getting us off the earth, lots and lots of thrust... but they use up HUGE amounts of fuel and fire for only a few minutes. A star drive needs to be able to create large amounts of thrust...