yeah, on a purpose built ship you could have something like that

I could totally see a 'Bussard JumpShip" - it screams through space at
100km/s, sucking up interstellar hydrogen and everything else until it
gets enough jump fuel, then jumps again. Some kind of 100kt monster
with a 70kt hangar full of 50 ton cutter sized automatic survey drones
that are just dumped out on the way past a star system, decel on their
own, and the AI does a whole survey then picks a spot to land and
become a type E port.

But as a "Oh, crap, we need a way to recover from a misjump!" where
the equipment isn't in place... that would be quite the adventure

Not sure where you'd get the hardware to make the electromagnetic
scoop, those things aren't small

Maybe pull grav plates out of the floor, take apart some of the ships
interior, and make a fan around the ship's fuel scoops that has 6G
attraction (max you can ask for from grav plates) so the fuel scoop
was virtually bigger... but that's a lot of improv, and one chunk of
solid (grain of sand) and that's going to hit the grav plate rather
than go in the scoop since it'll have more momentum

You might be able to put up some metal plates and build a tesla coil
to keep them charge polarized, then use the ship's laser to sweep
ahead and ionize the gasses, but I'm suspecting that weapons grade
lasers aren't designed to do continuos fire for weeks on end

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 10:41 AM Greg nokes - greg at nokes.name (via
tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
> One could imagine a huge electromagnetic field used as a scoop…
>
>
> (Ducking and running)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 2, 2023, at 5:11 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz - schwartz.jeffrey at gmail.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, these things happen when using Solomani operating systems.
> >
> > Sigh, I miss real computers
> >
> >> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 7:55 AM Alan Peery - Alan.Peery at
> >> tractare.co.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 10^19 for Earth's air, not 1019.   :-D
> >>
> >> Copy-paste modification, the reason an entire starship flotilla was
> >> lost... ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >>> On 02/05/2023 12:44, Jeffrey Schwartz - schwartz.jeffrey at gmail.com
> >>> (via tml list) wrote:
> >>> Earth's air has a density of approximately 1019 molecules per cubic
> >>> centimeter; by contrast the densest nebulae can have densities of
> >>> 10,000 molecules per cubic centimeter. --
> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula
> >>>
> >>> So, figure that skimming kinda needs at least Earth's atmo pressure to
> >>> get the "hours" numbers we're expecting
> >>> That would imply about 10^15th longer.  That comes out to about 1.1 x
> >>> 10^11 years. Considering the universe is about 1.3 x 10^10 years
> >>> old... that would be awkward.
> >>>
> >>> On the other hand, you could move faster when nebula skimming than gas
> >>> giant skimming, so that might trim down some time.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 11:08 PM kaladorn at gmail.com (via tml list)
> >>> <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >>>> I have a question:
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any reasonable chance that if you jumped into an empty hext *that contained a dense Nebula*, that they could go into cold sleep, set the computer to drift through the Nebula until it has enough power to jump?
> >>>>
> >>>> I am guessing real Nebulas are more defuse than I think (just like SW crash-crunch-smash asteroids are not at all like real asteroid belts)... but it was worth asking.
> >>>>
> >>>> - kaladorn
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 6:57 PM Hubert Figui?re - hub at figuiere.net (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On 2023-04-27 17:17, Christopher Sean Hilton - chris at vindaloo.com
> >>>>> (via tml list) wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a question about the mechanics of jump drive. Did I read somewhere that in a nominal
> >>>>>> jump trip, you precipitate out of Jumpspace at the 100D limit of a target object in normal
> >>>>>> space? If this is the case, how do you handle jump into empty hexes?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> The way I always interpreted it is that the 100D was the *minimum* safe
> >>>>> distance you could reemerge from jump space.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you reemerge in an empty hex, the bigger problem will be whether you
> >>>>> have enough fuel. This is also part of the problem when you have a jump
> >>>>> mishap and arrive in a place where there is no giant gas available.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In GURPS Traveller Interstellar War, they describe how Terra reached
> >>>>> neighbouring system with Jump-1: the established refueling stations,
> >>>>> which just support this interpretation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hub
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