This is James Bond villain crazy scheme material. 8-)
Derek Stanley
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On 2013-04-11, at 12:58, DED <> wrote:
> NASA is planning a trip to capture an asteroid. The video is just over 4
> 1/2 minutes.
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=161659311
>
> I particularly like the capture technology used in the video and figured
> that it probably has some usage in Traveller. CT had those Jump Ships
> in Sup9 (but never again IIRC). I figure that if the "bag" material in
> the video was adapted to Traveller and was composed of lanthanum it
> would be more practical than the "special field cables" used in the
> original write-up.
>
> Instead of relying on 5,000 ton ships (that was the displacement of the
> Jump Ship), you could have autonomous 100 ton ships out in the Kuiper
> belt puttering around looking for promising rocks. When a suitable
> target is found, they could jump back to the mainworld or wherever the
> base of operations was. Your jump drive could then be scaled down from
> the Jump Ship's J-6 to J-1. The smaller ships could either carry enough
> fuel for two J-1's (there and back) or fitted with the right equipment
> to make use of a comet (though moving from that comet to a target rock
> might consume too much fuel to make it worth it).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> \_/
> DED
>
>
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
On 2013-04-11, at 12:58, DED <> wrote:
> NASA is planning a trip to capture an asteroid. The video is just over 4
> 1/2 minutes.
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=161659311
>
> I particularly like the capture technology used in the video and figured
> that it probably has some usage in Traveller. CT had those Jump Ships
> in Sup9 (but never again IIRC). I figure that if the "bag" material in
> the video was adapted to Traveller and was composed of lanthanum it
> would be more practical than the "special field cables" used in the
> original write-up.
>
> Instead of relying on 5,000 ton ships (that was the displacement of the
> Jump Ship), you could have autonomous 100 ton ships out in the Kuiper
> belt puttering around looking for promising rocks. When a suitable
> target is found, they could jump back to the mainworld or wherever the
> base of operations was. Your jump drive could then be scaled down from
> the Jump Ship's J-6 to J-1. The smaller ships could either carry enough
> fuel for two J-1's (there and back) or fitted with the right equipment
> to make use of a comet (though moving from that comet to a target rock
> might consume too much fuel to make it worth it).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> \_/
> DED
>
>