OK - how full of holes is this, and how should it *really* (in the context
of the game) be done?
As
it turns out, iceballs may be an excellent source of deuterium.
Sample
size =1
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/10/water-comet-67p-earth-rosetta?CMP=ema_565
"Measurements
from Rosetta’s Rosina instrument found that water on
comet
67P /Churyumov-Gerasimenko contains about three times more
deuterium
– a heavy form of hydrogen – than water on Earth.”
Hmm, isn’t deuterium one of the impurities canonically removed from jump fuel? This would have implications for refueling from such.
in real life I suspect that deuterium oxide is concentrated in Kupier objects because of it’s very marginally higher heat of vaporization; it will tend to get concentrated as the lighter hydrogen oxide slowly evaporates.
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