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

[Mike Lorrey]

Orion baby, yeah! A half dozen hiroshima nukes = one aircraft carrier
in orbit

--- Henrique Moraes Machado <hemm at openlink.com.br> wrote:

> 
> That's the beauty. The nuclear spaceship would be launched not from
> ground but from orbit. It would have to be too massive to be launched
> from ground anyway.
> Then we first need the space elevators to assemble the ships in
> orbit. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] "Scientists feel stifled by
> Bushadministration"-alternatives?
> 
> 
> > --- Henrique Moraes Machado <hemm at openlink.com.br>
> > wrote:
> > > Shorter trips would be preferable (IMHO). Why not
> > > finally build those nuclear propelled spaceships?
> > > chemical rockets are crap.
> > 
> > Design and build a nuclear rocket that, even if it
> > explodes during liftoff (while airborne but not at
> > orbital speeds), will not scatter radioactivity all
> > over the ground (or, at least, the nuclear components
> > that reach the ground will contain their radioactive
> > material enough that they will be safe to approach
> > and, maybe after a few hours or so to cool down,
> > handle).  Do that, and perhaps stage some public
> > demonstrations by blowing up small scale versions of
> > it then wandering around the debris field with a
> > geiger counter, and you might be able to overcome the
> > public fear that keeps nuclear rockets from
> > deployment.  (Maybe a modification of the new pebble
> > bed reactors?)
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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