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Project Orion - dreaming about space exploration
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RE: Project Orion - dreaming about space exploration
Freeman Dyson's son published a book on it a few years ago.

If not for the stigma of nukes, we'd have vacation cruises going to Saturn by now.

Funny thing about Orion spaceships, they work better the bigger they get. Scaling them down enough to seem similar to what we have with rockets really messes up their practicality.


The interstellar colonizing version of Orion is pretty spectacular too. 50,000 colonists to a nearby star, and they take enough accouterments to establish a viable colony.
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RE: Project Orion - dreaming about space exploration - by vorlon13 - March 5, 2016 at 3:51 pm

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