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

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the amazing microelectronic fabrication that can be done in zero-G factories, and they'd live forever because we all know microgravity retards aging and keeps old bones healthy.

Also they would be way better at selling Tang.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was just going to shake my fist angrily but sarcasm is a better idea.

Do you think if I named my 3He mining company Poyais Investments, anyone would get the joke?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No, I meant mccirvin's use of sarcasm was a more effective strategy.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Have the possibilities of Space Food Sticks as a construction material been fully explored?

[montedavis.livejournal.com]

Perfect ball bearings! Perfect ball bearings!

[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)