Sun scoop
A Sun scoop or sunscoop is a refueling technique for starships seen in science fiction. While it is theoretically plausible, most science fiction is concerned with stars as places to be explored, rather than as refueling stops.[citation needed]
Method
It involves a literal scooping, in which a ship draws plasma directly from the outer surface of a star to use as fuel. Doing so would be extremely dangerous and only used in emergency situations.
In fiction
- Ray Bradbury's 1953 short story "The Golden Apples of the Sun".[1]
- In the final novel of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, an alien race, inhabiting massive "cities" orbiting a red giant, uses ships equipped with electromagnetic ramscoops as an alternative to planetary mining.[2]
- "42", a 2007 episode of Doctor Who
- Elite
- "Light", a first season episode of Stargate Universe[3] and others, including Blockade.
- Rendezvous with Rama, an Arthur C. Clarke novella.
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