[extropy-chat] "Scientists feel stifled by Bush administration"-alternatives?

[Henrique Moraes Machado]

Shorter trips would be preferable (IMHO). Why not finally build those nuclear propelled spaceships? chemical rockets are crap.

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Subject: [extropy-chat] "Scientists feel stifled by Bush administration"-alternatives?


> If the Moon/mars/Titan  etc is Bush's objective push cryogenic preserved 
> astronauts  shot from place to place Via massdriver  in automated 
> payload delivery cubicles, caught by reverse mass driver "catcher's 
> mits",  and revived at the destination  VS slow cumbersome, expensive 
> spacecraft for meatware.
> That would make space travel much cheaper from an energy- fuel 
> standpoint  and  a whole lot faster.