Antimatter in Earth orbit

[Ian Pearse]

Found this on the BBC site - sounds intriguing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14405122
Could a Star Trek-style matter/antimatter propulsion system be a step closer? Not saying FTL but just the energy-production side. How you'd harvest and use the antiprotons would be an interesting problem, but stranger things have happened.

[lukepemberton]

Aug 7, 2011 16:46:24 GMT -4 Ian Pearse said:

Found this on the BBC site - sounds intriguing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14405122
Could a Star Trek-style matter/antimatter propulsion system be a step closer? Not saying FTL but just the energy-production side. How you'd harvest and use the antiprotons would be an interesting problem, but stranger things have happened.

That is an interesting article, thanks for posting. I can this being a new argument in the hoax theory.

The Apollo craft would have been destroyed by anti-matter.

Let's see if the crazies come up with this as a theory. It would not surprise me in the slightest.

[Glom]

With such low concentrations, we might need to build a Dyson Sphere around Earth.