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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[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

The currently active bit of Bussard-woo is, of course, the Polywell.

(My theory on that is that the government is funding it as a honeypot for spies.)

[montedavis.livejournal.com]

C'mon, man -- if 2 x 10^30 kg of dumb ol' hydrogen can sustain fusion without an exquisitely sculpted potential and very rapid handwaving to prevent thermalization, how hard can it be?

I say pop a polywell in a Skylon, get out past the moon, and fire up the Cannae drive!