> Vehicles is missing a trick here, it appears. It's quite possible to > use air-breathing fusion rockets, which then use something else > (water, hyrdrogen are the usual choices, but you can use other things) > as reaction mass when you get out of the atmosphere.
Those are called fusion ram-rockets. Since they function as fusion rockets in space, I didn't list them separately. > The exhaust from > fusion rockets needn't be terribly radioactive. A D-3HE fusion > reactor is fairly low radiation output. > David Scheidt > [email protected] Talking about radiation, "fairly low" doesn't sound all that reassuring, expecially if space traffic starts to rival air traffic today. Consider what happened to nuclear freighters. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
