Your mission for today

[james_davis_nicoll]

Design a starship with 1950s and early 1960s level technology.

Comments

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

We can say the drive flare emerges in a near-perfect collimated beam, so it's hard to spot from Earth...and when the Russians took a second look at the energy output and realized the Giant Death Laser it made they promptly shat a brick.

I notice the starship is supposed to have launched in 1963. Give the Russians a few months to freak out and organize a response...the project must have been insanely classified, only known to a few American politicians at the very top...obviously the Russian protest was lodged on December 22nd, 1963.

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute -- I thought stealth in space was impossible[1] ;-)

[1] According to people who don't know the constant radiance theorem.