[ExI] New nuclear rocket engine design

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:44 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


>
> *> New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars By
> David Szondy    October 25, 2020*
> <
> https://newatlas.com/space/nuclear-thermal-propulsion-ntp-nasa-unsc-tech-deep-space-travel/
> >
>

For this type of rocket engine to have any chance of being adopted a new
name for it it will have to be found that doesn't have the words "nuclear"
or "atomic" in it, those words tend to shut down the logic centers of the
human brain and crank up the fear centers to eleven. That's why "Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance Imaging" was changed to just "Magnetic Resonance
Imaging". Shakespeare was wrong, a rose by any other name would NOT smell
as sweet, so "Transchemical Impulse Engine" might be a good euphemism, it
even has an acceptable acronym and a vague tie in to both Star Wars and
Star Trek. But I'm just an amateur, a good advertising guy could probably
think of a better name.

  John K Clark
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