sci.physics.particle

On Feb 9, 7:36 am, oldcoot wrote:
> > Perhaps others might care to ponder and subsequently offer their best
> > swag...
>
> Ion drives make sense for unmanned sorties within the solar system.
> But in relation to interstellar travel, manned or unmanned, the idea
> is totally hairbrain.

What's "hairbrain" is your excluding the intended cross posting.

Why don't you just entirely rename the topic, to something like
"oldcoot naysayism" or "Usenet anti-think-tank, via oldcoot".

However, I agree, that an ion thrusted spacecraft for going quickly to/
from Venus would be rather nifty. What else would you do with a spare/
surplus tonne of such highly active ions?
. - Brad Guth