They have shown it on a couple of shows. It was developed by a former astronaut. Here's a video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a7_1255323536
<http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a7_1255323536> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Martin Baxter <[email protected]>wrote: > > > No, not yet. I'll keep an eye out for it. > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Mr. Worf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Did you see the show where they debuted the plasma powered engine? >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Keith Johnson >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Ha-ha! I was watching one of the great science shows on cable recently. I >>> think it was "The Universe" on The History Channel. They had an ep on deep >>> space probes and discussed ion powered ships. The program indicated they're >>> getting better all the time, and that in the next ten - twenty years, we may >>> be able to see a severalfold increase in the speed of probes using ion >>> power. >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Martin Baxter" <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Sunday, September 5, 2010 6:15:36 AM >>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear >>> reactor >>> >>> >>> >>> Aside from the battery, I'm not seeing anything wrong with that idea... >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Keith Johnson < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Somewhere in my old house in Fort Worth is a schematic of an ion drive I >>>> did in second grade, after watching an ep of "Star Trek" (had to be >>>> "Spock's >>>> Brain"), and reading about electrolytes in my encyclopedia set. I'd read >>>> about how cesium, when immersed in water, would produce ions in solution, >>>> and I'd read about theories for Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the idea of >>>> using fusion power to drive plasma as a source of motion. Then there was >>>> that Trek ep where they said the aliens who took Spock's brain used ion >>>> power, which Kirk said was even beyond Federation tech. So, sure that I'd >>>> stumbled on a major secret, I took pen to paper. I drew a cutaway of the >>>> Jupiter Two from Lost in Space. Inside was a giant water tank. Sitting >>>> next >>>> to the tank, like a coal scuttle on a stem locomotive, was a big pile of >>>> cesium bricks--just sitting there. Next to them were some crazy robot arms >>>> with gloved "hands" (think of all the robot extremities as depicted in old >>>> cartoons). The robot hands--two of them--would take turns dumping cesium >>>> bricks into the water tank. Attached to the tank was a big A battery and >>>> wiring so that the ions in solution could be driven to one side of the tank >>>> by the negative pole of the battery. I then had what was for all the world >>>> a >>>> tailpipe sticking out the side of the ship, through which the electrons >>>> would shoot into space. >>>> Of course, my eight year old self was certain I'd just solved the >>>> problem of both ion drive and FTL travel. To this day I remember how >>>> excited >>>> I was at what I thought I'd created! >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 4:02:26 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear >>>> reactor >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The truly futuristic stuff is starting to appear. 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