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Trump orders mini nukes
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(September 12, 2017 at 6:56 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I met a gal at Purdue who claimed she'd actually met Hagen Daz. If I make a guess about her hair colour, will I get shot?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(September 11, 2017 at 1:48 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(September 10, 2017 at 9:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Methinks we talk different sci-fi. What? No kudoses! Am I destined to forever wander alone, the only SMAChead in the village. Ah well, at least the drones look up to me *sob*
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Home (September 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: What? No kudoses! Am I destined to forever wander alone, the only SMAChead in the village. Me mate Dave from Staines reckons to have some spice that'll have you journeying into space. No navigators required.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
RE: Trump orders mini nukes
September 13, 2017 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2017 at 2:48 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 11, 2017 at 1:31 am)vorlon13 Wrote: The Orion nuclear impulse spacecraft envisioned for interstellar colonization was actually the largest Orion craft that was considered. The construction time was estimated to be ~4 centuries (subsequent vessels would have been possible faster) and the craft would have been assembled entirely in space as it was too large to launch from the earth's surface. The propulsion modules were large, not mini, too, in the range of 25 MT. And there would have been quite a few of them, thousands. The idea behind the craft was to deliver a viable human colony to Alpha Centauri, around 50,000 people, and enough supplies to enable them to establish themselves. I don't remember the specifics, but the craft would have massed millions of tons at launch. In the nearly 6 decades since, some improvements on the design have been proposed. Among other ideas, a segmental pusher plate, 'trimmed' during flight to match the mass of the remainder of the vehicle as the impulse modules were used up, a DU pusher plate that would 'breed' reactor fuel to be used upon arrival at the target star, scaled yield propulsion modules tailored to the changing mass of the vehicle, and of course, all those subsequent decades of materials science advances. Well sure I had in mind something smaller, like a drone. I mean it would be pretty stupid to send peeps on 40 year voyage to discover that there are no planets around that star to live on it. But yeah people will need to move to another star system because it seems a star Gliese 710, is headed for a close encounter with our Solar System which means it will push thousands and thousands of giant rocks that will bombard all SOL. So it would be nice to send deep space drones, like Orion, to see what is in the outer parts of Solar System and perhaps scout planets around other stars.
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"
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.
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