<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:44 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars<br>
By David Szondy    October 25, 2020<br></i>
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<<a href="https://newatlas.com/space/nuclear-thermal-propulsion-ntp-nasa-unsc-tech-deep-space-travel/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newatlas.com/space/nuclear-thermal-propulsion-ntp-nasa-unsc-tech-deep-space-travel/</a>><br></blockquote><div> </div><font size="4">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 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>Transchemical Impulse Engine<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span> might be a good euphemism<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, it even has</span> an acceptable acronym <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and</span> a vague tie in to both Star Wars and Star Trek<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> But I'm just an amateur<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> a good advertising guy could probably think of a better name.  <br><br>  John K Clark<br></font></div></div>