[TML] Primitive starships

[Kirk Bailey]

Although true, there's a treaty against placing nukes in orbit. Cry though 
you will that they are propulsion charges, people are going to know they are 
nukes, and knowing humana ingenuity, it is possible to shield one for 
reentry and drop it down some's chimney. Sorry, until tthe paranois 
subsides, and the treaty  amended, there will be no orion. NERVA is another 
matter.

John Kwon wrote:
> I think it's important to point out that the Project Orion ship design
> and thrust method is perfectly workable (probably better used once in
> orbit though...).
> 
> You could go anywhere in the solar system in a far shorter amount of
> time than any other technologically feasible method (at our current
> tech level), carrying a payload much larger than any other currently
> envisioned method.
> 
> It doesn't require a lot of advanced technology, either.  All of it
> was deemed feasible in the early 1960s, and the math and codes already
> exist.
> 
> You shold read the book about Project Orion.
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