Re: Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space

[JHByrne]

In a message dated 10/31/2002 6:36:46 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

But can you present any evidence that you are not an individual
attempting to promote an idea that "flight is impossible"
in December of 1902, a year before the Wright Brothers took off?

Certainly.  In 1902, there were a lot of people who knew that flight could happen.  Just about every major country was involved in the process to some degree... the problem wasn't the theory.  It was simply a question of getting a gasoline engine to attach to a couple of wings.  In other words, 2 off the shelf parts, joined together, to make a brand new item.

Now, it's strange that you should mention the Wright Brothers, Robert.  Remember, in 1902, there were big efforts funded in France, Germany, and England.  Along comes a couple of middle aged bicycle shop repairmen, and invent the thing that far greater minds and far greater funding, could not.

So, if you can come up with a bathtub process to produce a handful of antimatter, well then, you can make that quick trip to Pluto and beyond.  Until then, the rest of us will just keep tinkering with something as prosaic as a terrestial bound ice submersible.