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    Posted by Paul Howd on November 12, 2003, 7:25 pm

    Since we are all interested in machines and transport I thought that some of you may be interested in a documentory on tonight at 11.20PM on BBC2 about what is probabally the most extraordinarry proposal for propelling a spaceship ever made.

    Atomic bomb power!

    Whilst initially the idea seems absurd, once disbelief is suspended the Orion is actually quite practical (there are some engineering/enviromental problems to overcome but they are not insurmountable and thats what engineers are for! the main problems are political rather than technical)

    Orion would be capable of propelling huge spaceships (and I do mean huge!)possibly with crews of hundreds, all over the solar system in weeks and months rather than the years that tiny robot probes do at present.

    (I do not know whether the documentory will be positive or negative on the idea, we shall see!)

    Enjoy!

    Paul


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