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by ben_w 501 days ago
> Buzzard

That's a bird, the engine is named after a person and is spelled differently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

Also, it won't work unless scaled up to the sort of thing only a Kardashev type II could do — 4000 km diameter — and at that level you've got other options that mean they probably won't:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/study-1960-ramjet-de...

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The reason being the interstellar medium is way less dense than we thought in 1960.