John Thingstad wrote:

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Larry Niven prefers the Buzzard ramscoop, a fusion jet that uses a
huge magnetic field in front of the ship to scoop up interstellar hydrogen.
(Probaly won't work..)



Were you misspelling 'Bussard' on porpoise?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet


TBerk