Geodesic, When Kennedy proposed going to the moon within ten years, he wasn't asked for a detailed plan. A pity you weren't there to do so. I...
Fantasyseeker, Ages is about right. Later I'll copy an extract from a book for you. It describes how after 20 years of stupendous effort...
Geodesic, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? You are asking for evidence that nuclear devices work? Everybody from Jerry Pournelle to Robert Zubrin can...
Phlog, You mean without ruining the empty wasteland? I think I've already explained several times. Scroll back. Industry in space, access to...
TruthSeeker, Maybe you should change your name to fantasyseeker. We are orders of magnitude away from He3 fusion and the only major source of...
Phlog, I disagree. The risk is negligible and the potential rewards far from insignificant. There are no viable alternatives currently available...
I've long been open minded about the possibility of undiscovered Ape and hominid species. Yowies, Alma's, Bigfoots, abominable Snowmen etc. Its...
phlogistician, Nothing. It won't. But it only needs to succeed once down here. The developmental work won't go to waste because it will...
Q I understand. Its so much easier to throw tomatoes at someone from a safe distance in the crowd and not challenge them directly. So...
dinokg, Beer is more radioactive than the coolant water released from nuclear power plants. Yet I know which one most people would prefer to...
geodesic, That only becomes a concern with very small vehicles. Like the stupid watered down version proposed by those bright sparks at NASA....
geodesic I don't recall saying anything remotely like that. I pointed out some hypocrisy. That's all. I don't believe there would be any deaths...
Geodesic In the long term people will change over to cheaper kinds of cars. Energy from space would reduce electricity cost. This would have the...
There's no need to build the steel launchpad in the middle of an Adelie or Emperor penguin breeding ground. There are two possibilities. A sea...
Can you give a reason why? Preferably one not based on a hollywood movie. Back in the 60's hundreds of bombs were detonated on the earths surface....
Orion is one of the great "what if's" of the twentieth century. Today, nuclear powered spaceships seem like little more than laughably naive 1950's...
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No problem. :D
In principle, quite right, it's an atomic bomb machine gun. But then chemical rockets are just big fireworks if you think about it. Pulse technology...
Have you tried it? :)
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