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MattRob
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So, I've read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium that the Interstellar medium varies greatly throughout space.
Of the categories listed; Molecular clouds, Warm Neutral Medium, Clound Neutral Medium, Warm Ionized Medium, H II regions, and Coronal Gas/Hot Ionized Medium, which best describes the area around our solar system?
I'm designing an interstellar Ramjet-Augmented Interstellar Ramscoop for some fiction, so it'd be nice to know if the space around the solar system is ionized or not, since I'd consider a magnet-based collector more or less a necessity in design.
If it's not, then what kind of battery of lasers would be needed to ionize the hydrogen in-between here and Tau Ceti? (12 LY appx.)
Of the categories listed; Molecular clouds, Warm Neutral Medium, Clound Neutral Medium, Warm Ionized Medium, H II regions, and Coronal Gas/Hot Ionized Medium, which best describes the area around our solar system?
I'm designing an interstellar Ramjet-Augmented Interstellar Ramscoop for some fiction, so it'd be nice to know if the space around the solar system is ionized or not, since I'd consider a magnet-based collector more or less a necessity in design.
If it's not, then what kind of battery of lasers would be needed to ionize the hydrogen in-between here and Tau Ceti? (12 LY appx.)