Using nuclear explosions to propel spaceships: Project Orion
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The excitement of exploration that briefly drove the science and technology of the early 60's has gone into hibernation. The only place you feel it these days is in the new star trek movie.
This site has some of the best info on Project Orion I have found:
http://nextbigfuture.com/search/label/Project%20Orion
But they say that about all those tests they did that went wrong. Oh well, we can dream!
Society needs to become a lot more productive, with cost saving technologies that will allow voluntary funding for projects of this magnitude. The space age will fail if it is pursued by governments agencies.
When we find good economic reason to go to space, it will naturally become a worthwhile endeavor for private citizens and companies to profitably undertake.
Right now, NASA is, mostly, a waste of money. That statement will make more sense when the economy collapses.
The excitement of exploration that briefly drove the science and technology of the early 60's has gone into hibernation. The only place you feel it these days is in the new star trek movie.
That is only because you don't know where to look. Projects such as Cassini/Huygens and the Mars Rovers are orders of magnitude more advanced than the moon landings. Just because the media find reality shows more worthy of attention nowadays doesn't mean the science and innovation has stopped.
I think it's too early in human development to actually go to space. We did go to the Moon and back and sent a robot to Mars with taxpayer money.
Society needs to become a lot more productive, with cost saving technologies that will allow voluntary funding for projects of this magnitude. The space age will fail if it is pursued by governments agencies.
When we find good economic reason to go to space, it will naturally become a worthwhile endeavor for private citizens and companies to profitably undertake.
Right now, NASA is, mostly, a waste of money. That statement will make more sense when the economy collapses.
Nah, I disagree.
its been estimiated that for every dollar the US government put in, they got a return of seven with all the space race technology spin offs. Whats the chances within 3m of you right now there are objects which have some off this technology imbued?
Plus there is never a time to not think of space, IMHO. It lifts the considerations of each individual into the realm of infinity where wars, resource scrabling and politics shrink into insignifigance. Space and more importantly, the sparking of the WORLD's collective imagination and hence cohesion.
I think there is something fatalistic to turn your back on space.
Thank god there is a plethora of commercial investors (Branson most notably) with the money and the foresight, and most importantly - WILL to move the stars closer.
We need to get started on the space elevator already.
even if you could get this technology to work,which is doubtful, it would take 100 years to get to the nearest star which is 4.25 light years away. and then ..so what? what will you do now? how will you communicate with earth? interstellar travel for people is probably not practical. it would be possible to send probes maybe..but why? to what end? for what purpose? populating our own star system is possible though.
Going to a different solar system would be stupid if it were longer than 2 years. Technology would leapfrog you. 100 years, and you would arrive only to find out it's become a galactic Starbucks.
Nah, I disagree.
its been estimiated that for every dollar the US government put in, they got a return of seven with all the space race technology spin offs. Whats the chances within 3m of you right now there are objects which have some off this technology imbued?
Ever stop to think how much more money could be made if it wasn't inefficiently researched by NASA?
Space research should not be the role of government.
I think there is something fatalistic to turn your back on space.
I'm not turning my back on space, I'm turning my back on government pursuing it. The reason it seems necessary for govt to pursue it is cost, what I'm saying is: let costs go down (or technology advance) and that problem will solve itself.
Thank god there is a plethora of commercial investors (Branson most notably) with the money and the foresight, and most importantly - WILL to move the stars closer.
Agreed.