Re: Re: Entrprise III - the players
Not being aan engineer or physics guy I always take the risk of being terribly wrong, but my take on ion propulsion is that our ability to generate thrust is so limited that a ship with the mass that we are talking about would be hard to get off the dime.
The Ion driven probe that we sent out there a few years ago was, I believe, one of the tiniest probes ever launched
An Ion generator that might get the job done would be so massive it would cancel itself out
It would take new science to build the Ion engine we would need.