The life and death of Bussard ramjets in fiction

[james_davis_nicoll]

Heppenheimer's paper came out in the mid-1970s.

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[oh6]

There's nothing like the fourth power of temperature to make one abruptly realize that one's romantic SF concept is a fairy tale.

I guess this is a graph of how long it took people to do the math for themselves, exclaim, "...as bright as the Sun?!" and give up on the idea.