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  1. 1G is for wussies by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com)

    We need a orbital base for Space Marines ASAP!

  2. Re:This is a fool's errand, but what _else_ is it by Tailhook · · Score: 1 · on Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse (bbc.com)

    It is impossible to legislate thought

    It's also not necessary. Terrorizing the crimethinkers into silence is sufficient.

    However, this will give the police even more powers to intrude into the lives of others.

    That's fine

  3. fight terrists AND CONQUER SPACE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization"

    some nutjob blogger with a plan (and a budget) to train space marines at 1.5G so they can kick everybody's butt

  4. lame, sad, pathetic, try harder by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center

    This story is useless without pics

    Thanks for pointing out that this was done a while ago FLM, I was starting to worry about the prevalence of CRT monitors in this purported "high-tech" panopticon. And that "captain's chair" looks kind of just stuck-in there, not nicely integrated like a real H*llywood control center.

    All-in-all, I'm disappointed congressmen would be wowed by this, it certainly doesn't pass muster with my highly-refined aesthetic sense.

    Also, shouldn't this really be all Tom Cruise "Minority Report" style?!
    Or with VR googgles like Klytus' secret police monitoring center in the 80's Flash Gordon movie?

    Maybe the best way to mock this is to start digging up real cringeworthy ST fan apartment remodels to compare it to.

  5. If I were king of the world... by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium'

    A not-so modest proposal (not mine, just some dude with a space blog)

  6. Re:As Reliable as Swiss Trains? by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on Project Envisions Modular Aircraft That Double as Train Cars

    unexpected shift in CG...
    it's not as simple as bolting a rail car to the underbelly of an airplane

  7. sick sad world by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on MythBusters Bust House

    Is this enough to satisfy your need to feed off of the misfortune of others?

    If not, you can read about : Massive Japanese crash claims eight Ferraris, three Benzes, and a Lamborghini.
    And if that's not enough for ya, you can read about the pretty young woman who's not so pretty any more after walking into a active airplane propeller.

  8. Re:Single Engine Lockheed? by florescent_beige · · Score: 1 · on NASA's Next-Generation Airplane Concepts

    Lockheed has championed the closed wing idea for many years. Their concepts usually have 2 engines. Here are other images some dating back to the '80s:
    http://aero.stanford.edu/Reports/Nonplanarwings/ClosedSystems.html
    http://www.airmailmagazine.com/closed-wing-aircraft-designs (4th picture down)
    http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=1986

  9. Re:15 years to prepare? by LandGator · · Score: 2, Interesting · on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids

    A year? A year? With 2008_TC3, we had twenty hours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3 We need an Project Orion ship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion), an Archangel Michael design http://www.up-ship.com/apr/michael.htm to shove the next Dinosaur Killer Rock out of the way.

  10. Re:It is called engineering. by Gilmoure · · Score: 1 · on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project

    I think they need to go back to Project Orion and build a Michael .

    Eat hot gamma rays!

  11. Re:Equal and opposite? by Gilmoure · · Score: 1 · on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator

    Still not as cool as the launch of an Orion.

  12. Why are we piddling? Just launch Michael. by TellarHK · · Score: 1 · on Lockheed Martin unveils Space Shuttle replacement

    I mean, a nice launching of the Michael from someplace in Washington State (Redmond, perhaps?) would probably do the trick of getting a nice payload into orbit. Of course, without the baby elephants... but we'd still get to nuke Redmond!

  13. Footfall by Hexact · · Score: 1 · on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along
    Larry Niven and specially Jerry Pournelle will be happy to see that.

    Here's a design of the spacecraft based on their Footfall novel

    I always thought Pournelle to be a bit loony to push for such a technology. I guess I was wrong.

    Clem.

  14. Re:Well, duh, haven't you read Niven? by Mad+Man · · Score: 3, Informative · on Saturn Rings But No Spokes
    re: Well, duh, haven't you read Niven?

    Time to start studying those old Orion plans...


    ...which can be found at http://www.up-ship.com/apr/michael.htm


    Aerospace Imagineering Presents:
    MICHAEL

    from FOOTFALL by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

    Science Fiction author Larry Niven needs no introduction. In his stories and collaborations, he has created some of the most imaginative and advanced spacecraft concepts ever conceived. Aldo Spadoni is an aerospace engineer and conceptual designer, specializing in the realistic design and visualization of future technology. Larry and Aldo have been collaborating to visually bring to life these wonderful spacecraft and other advanced technological concepts, as described in Larry's stories. The detailed designs are being developed by Aldo using aerospace industry systems engineering principles

    MICHAEL is an example of this endeavor. FOOTFALL by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle is a classic story of alien invasion. The invading Fithp force the human race into a condition of servile surrender. In secrecy, humanity builds a battleship named MICHAEL, a nuclear powered mountain of steel to rise up into space and do battle with the aliens on their own turf. MICHAEL is based on the nuclear pulse propulsion concept developed under Project ORION (1958 - 1965).

    Aldo Spadoni is President of Aerospace Imagineering , a consulting firm specializing in advanced technology conceptual design and visualization for the aerospace, publishing, television, and motion picture industries. For more information about the Niven Project, please contact us at aldo@alum.mit.edu.

    All imagery is copyrighted (C) 2001 by Aerospace Imagineering and Aldo Spadoni. All rights reserved.