(September 13, 2017 at 3:43 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Orion Nuclear Impulse just doesn't scale down to 'small'. The efficiency of the concept actually increases with size. Hence a 50,000 person colonization craft massing millions of tons.
But I've seen different sizes (of course I'm talking about smaller unmanned spacecraft that would take photos of outer solar system and perhaps other star)
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Also according to George Dyson NASA has contingency to put nuclear pulse technology if some horrible asteroid was to hit Earth and then to divert it away.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
