Awatmath.1883
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Sun Feb 28 04:36:13 1982
Quasars
Well, if the ships have to be going away from us to be seen, why not?
After all, we're talking about type III technology here. If they can build
these quasi-stellar ships, perhaps they can have whole fleets of them, and
they are constantly flitting about the galaxy. Here's a calculation to
perform: Take the energy output of a quasar, and convert that into energy
momentum for all the spectra they emit. Work out how much momentum is being
thrown away from the quasar, and assuming it is all going one way, see how
much would be imparted to a ship the other way. From that work out what
kind of delta-v we could be getting for ships of various masses.
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