For all you Orion fans out there

[james_davis_nicoll]

Seldon Ball's Orion page.

I'm a bit of an Orion sceptic (I think it would have been very expensive) and it seems to me that the idea of propelling a giant rocketship with a series of atomic explosions was wasted on the Americans.

nicked from Martha Adams on rasff

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Always assuming the stuff is actually useful for something, which is open to question.

[tsm-in-toronto.livejournal.com]

Gadzooks, man!

If you inhale 3He, because it is lighter than 4He, you will quickly be able to (1) talk even more convincingly like Donald Duck, than all the mere Earth-bound technopeasants who are bereft of the stuff, and who must, as a result, make their feeble attempts to do this with ("Ha!" -- "HA!", I say ...) 4He, -- and therefore you will quickly be able, using this unparalleled advantage, to (2) Take Over The World!! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Evillaugh.ogg)