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"Damon Hill" wrote in message 38... I'm saddened that Bussard didn't live to see more and greater results of his concepts, but hopefully his work will go on. I'm saddened by the death of almost anyone, but I have to say that I don't think he'd have seen greater results, had he lived. I fear that, perhaps motivated by approaching death, he pushed the concept publically much more than was warranted. He had nothing to lose. Paul |
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On Oct 8, 7:14 pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...33.html#009833 I notice Wiki listing this too. I meet Robert once in late 1970's , had a long dinner with him. In those days he was not yet the quasi-quixotic character he later became. He was still Mr. Nuclear Propulsion , probably the top expert in that in the world. He told me that the Interstellar Ramjet came to him at Los Alamos while he was looking at his Mexican breakfast and a rolled up tortilla! His paper ...R. W. Bussard, "Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight", Astronautica Acta 6 (1960): 179 - 194... is still a marvel of relativistic engineering. He was lean smooth talking dude with a PhD in physics from Princeton and a very nice man. |
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On Oct 8, 11:34 pm, kT wrote:
Damon Hill wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote in : http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...33.html#009833 Thus far, not a word of this on talk-polywell.org I'm saddened that Bussard didn't live to see more and greater results of his concepts, but hopefully his work will go on. The world certainly needs more crackpot ideas. I don't think any of Robert Bussard's 'fusor' ideas were crackpot, they had a sound construct within theoretical physics, its just that he had a little too much optimism about technological realization and time lines. Can't let this thread pass without mention that Bussard was, at one time, one of the world's most important experts in nuclear rocketry during the 1950's and 1960's(*,**). An important figure in the development and implementation of the USA's only nuclear rocket motors at Los Alamos. *Bussard, R & DeLauer, R (1958), Nuclear Rocket Propulsion, McGraw- Hill **Bussard, R.W. & DeLauer, R.D., Fundamentals of Nuclear Flight, (McGraw-Hill: New York, 1965). |
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:31:23 -0700, in a place far, far away, Al
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On Oct 8, 11:34 pm, kT wrote: Damon Hill wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote in : http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...33.html#009833 Thus far, not a word of this on talk-polywell.org I'm saddened that Bussard didn't live to see more and greater results of his concepts, but hopefully his work will go on. The world certainly needs more crackpot ideas. I don't think any of Robert Bussard's 'fusor' ideas were crackpot, Consider the source of this comment, and note the irony. If you look up "crackpot" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Tommy Elifritz. Well, actually, make that Nazi crackpot. |
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Rand Simberg wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:31:23 -0700, in a place far, far away, Al made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On Oct 8, 11:34 pm, kT wrote: Damon Hill wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote in : http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...33.html#009833 Thus far, not a word of this on talk-polywell.org I'm saddened that Bussard didn't live to see more and greater results of his concepts, but hopefully his work will go on. The world certainly needs more crackpot ideas. I don't think any of Robert Bussard's 'fusor' ideas were crackpot, Consider the source of this comment, and note the irony. If you look up "crackpot" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Tommy Elifritz. Well, actually, make that Nazi crackpot. Ok, let's look critically at what I've done, besides point out the obvious that the Ares I is a piece of ****, which unfortunately isn't obvious to an American public dumbed down by years of the fascist Bush regime. What Mr. Elifritz did, was only to apply the BCS-BOSE theory to chemistry, years before the BCS-BOSE theory was fashionable, before the discovery of the pseudo-gap in the cuprates, before the demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation on atomic gases, before the demonstration of the Feshbach resonance in atomic gases, and before the demonstration of the fundamental nature of the BSC-BOSE model and the verification of the BCS=BOSE theory as the definitive theory of condensed matter physics. What did this get me? I gave me the necessary insight into the previously mysterious behavior of metal-ammonia solutions and bismuth iodide solutions, in order to establish these particular systems as the definitive condensed matter physics examples of the BSC-BOSE transition. Now tell me again what Robert Bussard did? While you're at it, please tell me what Mr. Rand Simberg has accomplished lately in science. I won't be waiting around for the answers. |
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Al wrote:
On Oct 8, 11:34 pm, kT wrote: Damon Hill wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote in : http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...33.html#009833 Thus far, not a word of this on talk-polywell.org I'm saddened that Bussard didn't live to see more and greater results of his concepts, but hopefully his work will go on. The world certainly needs more crackpot ideas. I don't think any of Robert Bussard's 'fusor' ideas were crackpot Anybody who thinks nuclear rockets in situ are a good idea is nuts. If you'd like to look at one of my crackpot ideas : http://www.lifeform.org/bion.htm |
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Al wrote: Can't let this thread pass without mention that Bussard was, at one time, one of the world's most important experts in nuclear rocketry during the 1950's and 1960's(*,**). An important figure in the development and implementation of the USA's only nuclear rocket motors at Los Alamos. We still aren't using them you'll note, which may say something...coming up on fifty years afterwards. NERVA was heavy; Dumbo was iffy, and both were dirty for surface liftoff. Even the far later Timberwind project went nowhere fast. A lot of the isp advantage disappeared in shielding weight and the weight of the reactor itself. Pat |
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