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Tau Zero Poul Anderson
Publisher: Doubleday Direct

Remember, as Bob Palais told us, \pi is wrong! Why Should the Deeper Truths of the Universe Be Given Only to the One Percent? It turned out to be one my favorite novels from the last few years. Happy tau day—a day that is twice as fun a pi day! Organizations have emerged — DARPA's 100 Year Starship, Icarus Interstellar, the Tau Zero Foundation — whose members call to mind physicist Robert Forward's injunction: “Travel to the stars is difficult but not impossible.”. Millis headed NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project and took an early retirement to continue this work as partial of a interstellar investigate activities of a Tau Zero Foundation. Anderson's biggest-selling novel, the 1970 SF novel Tau Zero, differs significantly from The Broken Sword, not just in content, but also in prose style and characterization. The one percent who control most everything are the best at collecting and hoarding. Lil quick entry, just been surffing this new torrent search engine called ubernova.org, give them a visit, well worth a bookmark! Let's celebrate our new favorite mathematical constant: \tau\approx 6.283185307179586\ldots. There is a nonfiction essay by Arthur C Clarke that I read only once in high school, and it has focused my thinking more than any other single work of fiction. Tau Zero is the story of a Bussard ramjet travelling to a planet some 32 light years from Earth with a crew of 50 and enough cargo for them to establish a colony. I picked up a copy of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero on ebay last year in a lot of mixed classic sci-fi novels. For all other angles between 0° and 90°, \$\tau\$ is some percentage of \$\tau_{max}\$.