Re: The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

Jul 27, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 2 Replies
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> The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion


> > "NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."
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> They have money burning a hole in their pocket.
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> > Finally!
> > But
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> > Uranium reactor falls to back earth in a few hundred years?
> That's their ( Earth 100 years from now ) problem.
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> Same attitude taken by the reckless nuclear weapon manufacturing people, whose left-behind waste is now costing over $100B to clean up, if it can even be done..

But civilian use of nuclear power is perfectly safe with zero impact on future generations.

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The mutations are random in their effects. Natural selection means that the rare one's that generate helpful variations get selected and survive, and become over-represented in subsequent generations. That isn't random, or miraculous.

John Larkin prefers "intelligent design" but he doesn't seem to understand design anyway.

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If you tried talking sense you might do better. Charles Darwin has been dead for quite a while, and his sons too

I did see one of the descendants from time to time when I was living in Brighton UK from 1979 to 1982.

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Then my wife and I moved to Cambridge where I worked for a firm that had been set up by Horace Darwin, Charles Darwin's youngest son.

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