[TML] lifeboats

[Kirk Bailey]

Correct; and it does well not to think about where that flask of pure water 
was 12 hours ago...

But in all seriousness, without handwavium, the design roughed out is doable 
NOW.

Note that high grade peroxide has been used for rocket fuel with success- 
silver plated injectors do the trick of catylizing the reaction.   A small 
converter feeds thehstam/oxy mmix toa turbine to spin a generator, an 
condensor fini deliver foaming water with oxy, ,a cyntrifucual seperator 
seperates into water and oxygen; mount the entire thing ona pivot at the 
center of mass and it's how you can pivvot the ship without reaction mass 
being used, as it is a gyroscope inherently.  Toss in a mounted laptop tied 
in to a radio direction finder, basic radar, and a pulse mode beascon, and 
you have a working lifeboat.

However, unless traffic in the area is frequent, it's useless.  Too little 
delta V to go far.


Richard Aiken wrote:
> On 9/16/07, Kirk Bailey <deliberatus at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking his mind was on the following . . .
> 
>> and in a spaceship, a means of handling body waste-
>> which can include a means of extracting and purifying water for re use, or
>> cracking for oxygen, or both.
> 

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