If I were a full-time science fiction writer, I would really enjoy Dr. Myrabo's lightcraft, but the truth is I am not much of a science fiction writer, so I'm not that enamored. His stuff seems to require a lot of unobtanium to work. -----Original Message----- From: Henry Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:10 PM To: ERPS Subject: Re: [ERPS] Pointy Protruberances
... If you want a *really* high-tech solution, Leik Myrabo has shown that you can get much of the effect of a physical spike by using focused laser or microwave energy to create a spark ahead of the nose. Now *that* you could reasonably move in and out to match velocity, and in fact you could probably move it laterally for aerodynamic steering. But this is right up at the level of "barely proven to work at all", far beyond the region of confident engineering design... _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
