[HN Gopher] Solar flare-style rocket thruster 'could send astron...
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       Solar flare-style rocket thruster 'could send astronauts to outer
       solar system'
        
       Author : dTal
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-02-07 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | mrfusion wrote:
       | I doubt this will have regions of magnetic instability within the
       | corridor and that prolonged exposure of energy to these regions
       | of subspace will caused them to rupture resulting in subspace
       | rifts.
        
         | kristianp wrote:
         | Sounds like a bot to me.
        
       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | It's a concept, not even a proof of concept so far.
       | 
       | Also, how is this better than existing ion thrusters? Isn't it
       | just a bigger ion thruster?
        
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