Cheif Operations Director

Well they would have to be within 90 light years for that Since the 20s-30s is when radio took off. Really in all honestly within 60 light years of us (1950s) to be hearing radio broadcast for high school football games, Although that is kind of neat to think that somewhere in the universe their might be a signal from a random high school football game somewhere in America that every one has forgotten about, Hmm, an alien source could pick up all of the World War Two radio transmissions in theory atleast

Yes

I mean it may work better but you would need to ionize the products of the chemical reaction.

that is good

seriously it is ridiculous how little funding space gets it should be about $40 Billion a year

Sorry NTP?

haha! nice one Not even that it is a fossil. I do not think SpaceX or BO are "the future" but neither is nasa. I think NASA should be give more money for probes and orion, artemis etc. But the actual launching of vehicles should be left to private companies. NASA has its place, and it is not private companies. These companies should have 5-10 year fixed priced contracts to prevent price gouging if something goes wrong on a NASA mission

It goes through that first, then I cool it down in a "pre-chamber" so by the time it gets to the chemical combustion chamber where the two ion streams meet It is a gas. Im pretty much giving the chemical fuel speed boost

Ok, that is what I thought so how would I be costing a large decrease in ISP if I am expelling a mostly small amount of fuel out of the back? Remember I need 2 H and 1 O for H20 so If we suppose I am expelling 1,000,000 hyrodgen atoms a second I need 500,000 oxygens. I am getting that acceleration from the base plasma thruster, I am then combining the already very fast particles in gaseous form. It transitions from a plasma to a gas in the combustion chamber.and then creates even more pressure, not less.

what part of this design causes the high Isp. I want to make sure we are on the same page here Yes I think it may be the same idea. A sort of combo between the two I would be your run of the mill chemical rocket Nulcear reactor perhaps?

We will be fine... I guess My solution: SPAM THE AIRWAVES!

Alright, I need to sleep I will continue tomorrow sorry

So Plasma's are always incapable of bonding even with other plasma's? wait what? Im not following you sorry

I know that

Yes but most of the advantages would still be their right? I mean the super hot gases and plasma accelerating the explosive material out even faster of the nozzle creating more pressure?

To get a high thrust? what if you put it right at the line so some of it was plasma and some of it was not?

why would it get immediately ionized?

Another Idea on this sort of line of thought

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I guess they are fine then still a little ehh though

Yea but if we intentionally ionized the air we could make hypergonic fuel in flight with hydrogen and oxygen and get a ton of heat and pressure to accelerate a small amount of propellant (in theory, theory in the non scientific sense)

I like the puffy space suits. Also the future is not now otherwise if it was we would see the end of the universe

That may be true, that tends to happen with lighter colored things

Something like this (excuse the bad sketch) the purple is your run of the mill plasma thruster, the it pushes the ionized fuel (purple) into the combustion chamber where a small amount of LOX is added for combustion.

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