Anti-matter

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> On 1/30/2011 7:27 PM, Joe Snodgrass wrote:
> > What's the best way to make anti-matter for your rocket engine? An
> > accelerator. That's why Clarke's spaceship was so long in the 2001
> > movie.
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> All this time I thought it has fission powered engines (and general
> electrical power generation as well) and the long boom was supposed to
> reduce the crew's radiation exposure.

Not quite true either.

In Clarke's original conception (as expressed in his novelization), the
spaceship Discovery had giant radiating fins attached along the long
boom, to dissipate the enormous heat from the fission engines.

But Kubrick decided that this would make the ship look like some giant
insect, and so the wings came off, leaving just the long boom.




-- Steven L.

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>> On 1/30/2011 7:27 PM, Joe Snodgrass wrote:
>> > What's the best way to make anti-matter for your rocket engine? An
>> > accelerator. That's why Clarke's spaceship was so long in the 2001
>> > movie.
>>
>> All this time I thought it has fission powered engines (and general
>> electrical power generation as well) and the long boom was supposed to
>> reduce the crew's radiation exposure.
>
> Not quite true either.
>
> In Clarke's original conception (as expressed in his novelization), the
> spaceship Discovery had giant radiating fins attached along the long boom,
> to dissipate the enormous heat from the fission engines.
>
> But Kubrick decided that this would make the ship look like some giant
> insect, and so the wings came off, leaving just the long boom.
>
>
>

I had no idea that Honda were making these. Wish I'd found out before I
settled on the CRV. ;o)
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Tinkerer

Thus spake "Tinkerer" > :

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>"Steven L." > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/30/2011 7:27 PM, Joe Snodgrass wrote:
>>> > What's the best way to make anti-matter for your rocket engine? An
>>> > accelerator. That's why Clarke's spaceship was so long in the 2001
>>> > movie.
>>>
>>> All this time I thought it has fission powered engines (and general
>>> electrical power generation as well) and the long boom was supposed to
>>> reduce the crew's radiation exposure.
>>
>> Not quite true either.
>>
>> In Clarke's original conception (as expressed in his novelization), the
>> spaceship Discovery had giant radiating fins attached along the long boom,
>> to dissipate the enormous heat from the fission engines.
>>
>> But Kubrick decided that this would make the ship look like some giant
>> insect, and so the wings came off, leaving just the long boom.
>>
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>I had no idea that Honda were making these. Wish I'd found out before I
>settled on the CRV. ;o)

Bet you couldn't get the sucker into your garage, though. Even a
double deep. Or even park it in your half mile long driveway.
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