[ExI] Why no space colonies or lunar bases? was Mooon. (Keith Henson)

[Adrian Tymes]

2011/7/24 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> On 23 July 2011 17:52, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Firing off a large number of fusion bombs is not reasonable politically.
>
> Neither was the switch from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture and animal
> breeding... :-)

Actually, it was.  There weren't a lot of people objecting to it.

> And, BTW, Project Orion vehicles were originally conceived also as a way to
> dispose of strategic nuclear arsenals. What could be more politically
> corrected? :-)

Disposing of them in closed, sealed spaces such that none of the radioactivity
leaks out, and no one gains from their use in such a way as to suggest that it
might possibly be worth making more off them.