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Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

JHByrne
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:18:10 -0800

In a message dated 10/31/2002 6:50:48 AM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/antimatter_sail_021029.html

To Steve Howe, a trip to Pluto is small potatoes. That most distant planet orbits about 40 times further from the Sun than the Earth. But that's not even half as far as Howe dreams of traveling.

Chalk it up to Gail Leatherwood's file on 'unobtainium'.  Oh well.  At least it gives us perspective.

-- JHB