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From an early age I was always fascinated with space travel. I was around during the moon landings in 1969, watched with a lot of interest the developments in the manned space program and like a lot of people my generation got caught up with the notion of the space frontier.

I equally became aware of the limitations in space technology, in particular the inefficiency of the propulsion systems. I took on an interest on a number of technology frontiers including Ion Drive, cold fusion, anti gravity generators among them

Still do…..

NASA - Ion Propulsion

Cold fusion - Wikipedia

Anti-gravity - Wikipedia
 
parsifal said:
From an early age I was always fascinated with space travel.
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I had an interest in construction equipment (houses built at the end of the block), airplanes (annual flights to Hawaii), and astronomy (stars and planets are fascinating).

I think the same reason most people would be into aviation would be the same as those interested in astronomy and space-travel. The huge size of space, the wonder of seeing distant worlds, and the ability to fly freely over huge distances.
I equally became aware of the limitations in space technology, in particular the inefficiency of the propulsion systems.
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Yeah rockets have terrible efficiency, powerful as hell, but burn fuel and oxidizer at a horrifying rate
I took on an interest on a number of technology frontiers including Ion Drive, cold fusion, anti gravity generators among them
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Cold fusion is very low-rate nuclear fusion like how warmth is to fire, as fire is to explosion? As for ion-drive -- I kind of think of ion & plasma as being kind of similar concepts (plasma is an ionized gas).

Anti-gravity forms a mix of ideas from ionocraft which isn't really gravity neutralization, but thrust; there are proposals that involve using technology to warp the fabric of space time which effectively has all sorts of implications from artificial gravity, to warp-drive, and traversable wormholes.
 
Friend was right into Star Trek for many years - every episode on video and all that.

He bought a book on the original Enterprise with the schematics and functions of all parts of the
ship from deck to deck. Strange thing was - no toilet anywhere onboard. Adds a whole new meaning
to the Captains log.
 
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