Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Gas From Uranus Makes For Great Starship Fuel

Actually the title should’ve been “gas from your anus” but that would be too inappropriate. (Though funny, real funny.) Long story abbreviated: enormous planet-wide helium-3 deposits in Uranus can be harvested for interstellar travel. Helium-3 is an ideal fuel because it’s abundant and reacts well with deuterium. Deuterium is also known as ‘heavy hydrogen’ and isn’t abundant, even if it did figure in the first hydrogen bomb some time ago.

Vastness of Space


1 comment:

  1. You should re-title this to: "Plenty of Gas in Your Anus"

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