Enzmann Echolance: Reach For The Stars

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The Echolance would require an immense amount of energy to reach relativistic speeds, possibly necessitating the mining of entire planets for resources. We will do well to try to keep Stine’s enthusiasm alive even as we tackle the vast propulsion challenges that confront us. The proposed method of tank construction would be to expand a plastic balloon in space and coat it with metal.

This nifty feature allows passengers to traverse galaxies while aging at a snail’s pace, turning millennia into mere seconds.The ball of frozen deuterium would fuel thermonuclear-powered pulse propulsion units, similar to Project Orion engines.

And although George Marx and Robert Forward had already been examining pushing a large sail with a laser (Forward’s work went back to the early 1960s), Stine seems unaware of it. My concern now is who made the RWAs and if they also made the RWAs for IRIS [my last program at LM ] which launches in late June. And, by the way, I am also wondering if the De ball is used as shield for incoming obstacles/radiation due to interstellar protons. But IIRC, the 2,xxx planet “candidates” cannot be confirmed by Kepler…it can’t distinguish those from an in-line eclipsing binary.Reading the material in the Archive results in greater perspective on most any subject, not the least of which is Cosmology. Hubble Space Telescope was my first program at LM and it had 8 RWAs [2 sets with redundant spares] all of which were replaced twice in the first 20 years of operation. Of course, as discussed in the paper, Enzmann had been thinking about that design since at least 1949.