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Score one for U of M.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Sunday, August 31, 2008 15:31
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Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:31 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Oh how I love the geekers down at UM, they come up with some of the neatest shit...
(Still drooling over the quantum chips, too!)

This time around they've come up with a modification of the Ion Engine - I've been a big fan of those things since DS1 and DS2, they're quite efficient and for their size, very effective.

And they're about to get a whole lot better.

Flat-panel ion thrusters
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2008/08/flat-panel-ion-thru
sters.html

"Full Impulse power, damn you!"
-Khan

-F

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