Weâre building thermonuclear spaceships againâthis time for real
>The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware.
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>Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on, after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
It helps that travelers will already get a lethal dose of radiation from cosmic rays, so we don't have to waste spacecraft mass by shielding the reactors.
If space travelers were going to get a lethal dose of radiation from cosmic rays, all the people who have spent months in the ISS would be dead - they are just as exposed to cosmic rays as people who would travel further.
John Larkin really didn't pay any attention to his science lectures when he was at Tulane.
I don't think it is money that they are addicted to if they intend to actually make one of those things. Synthetic opioids seems more likely.
Unmanned space science probes are worthwhile. Orbiting tin cans are not.
But we can't allow the Chinese to Dominate Space.
They’re all cultural activities, like opera and baseball, so it’s all good clean fun as long as nobody gets hurt.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
They tend to die young.
John Larkin claims not to feel fear either - it's a cognitive defect, rather than any kind of virtue. In your case you just do stupid things that haven't killed you yet. John Larkin seems to think that people who do feel fear are terrified all the time, which is just as silly.
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