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Hypothetical Spacecraft: Bussard Ramjet, Generation Ship, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Sleeper Ship

Hypothetical Spacecraft: Bussard Ramjet, Generation Ship, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Sleeper Ship


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bussard Ramjet, Generation Ship, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Sleeper Ship, Starwisp, Self-Replicating Spacecraft, Interstellar Ark, Project Daedalus, Bracewell Probe, Sea Dragon, Project Valkyrie, British Rail Flying Saucer, Astrochicken, Project Longshot, Cross Generation Ship, Black Hole Starship, Innovative Interstellar Explorer, Starseed Launcher, Moonbus, Nexus. Excerpt: Astrochicken is the name given to a thought experiment expounded by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson . In his book Disturbing the Universe (1979), Dyson contemplated how humanity could build a small, self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a manned craft could. He attributed the general idea to John von Neumann, based on a lecture von Neumann gave in 1948 entitled The General and Logical Theory of Automata . Dyson expanded on von Neumann's automata theories and added a biological component to them. Astrochicken, Dyson explained, would be a one-kilogram spacecraft unlike any before it. It would be a creation of the intersection of biology, artificial intelligence and modern microelectronics a blend of organic and electronic components. Astrochicken would be launched by a conventional spacecraft into space, like an egg being laid into space. Astrochicken would then hatch and start growing a solar energy collector. The solar collector would feed an ion drive engine that would power the craft. Once Astrochicken entered a planet's vicinity, it would collect material from the moons and rings of the planet, taking in nutrients. It could land and take off using an auxiliary chemical rocket similar to that used by bombardier beetles . It would periodically transmit details of its journey when it could make radio contact with Earth. The term ..".


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155532721
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Bussard Ramjet, Generation Ship, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Sleeper Ship
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155532724
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 132 gr


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