For all you Orion fans out there
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james_davis_nicollSeldon 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
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
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Date: 2008-03-31 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-01 01:40 am (UTC)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)