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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Could antimatter in Saturn's magnetosphere be used as a power source for future spacecraft?

Estimates are that perhaps 1/4 milligram of antimatter is injected into Saturn's magnetosphere per year. Antimatter is the most efficient energy source known to physics, hundreds of times more efficient per unit mass than nuclear fusion. So, is it conceivable in the future, that this antimatter could somehow be harvested from Saturn's magnetosphere, and utilized as a power/energy source by future interplanetary spacecraft? I've no doubt there would be significant technical obstacles to this, of course. What would these obstacles be, exactly, and, how could they possibly be overcome?

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