Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site minn-ua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!minn-ua!sew From: sew@minn-ua.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Intersteller travel via comet - (nf) Message-ID: <924@minn-ua.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 13:30:32 EST Article-I.D.: minn-ua.924 Posted: Tue Jan 31 13:30:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 10:58:13 EST Sender: notes@minn-ua.UUCP Organization: Univ. of Minn. Computer Center, Minneapolis Lines: 10 #R:ames-lm:-12400:minn-ua:15100001:000:425 minn-ua!sew Jan 31 09:53:00 1984 If I remember my physics correctly, you'd be better off meeting the comet on its way *in*, and moving away from it by the sun. If you can accelerate a habitat to cometary speed, however, you'd only want to tag the comet for whatever materials it might provide..would not need it for acceleration as (1) you have enough thrust for a generation ship and (2) a comet does not have sufficient gravity to accelerate the habitat.