There has been many comments on us requiring a new form of propulsion, obviously not chemical rockets.
Nuclear pulse propulsion. Could take a manned mission to Pluto and back in a year. The trick? Dropping.15kt nukes out the back of the ship and riding out the shockwave. Extremely effective. The original design is from the early 60's. They even wanted to launch the ship from the ground using this trick, and pogo-sticking to orbit. Hiroshima was 50kt, so there's little threat about a nuke going "astray."
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=430108543679549&set=a.430108540346216.103930.164801466876926&type=1&theater 38 miles on 28 pounds of lithium iron magnesium phosphate batteries in 70 minutes. Not bad...
There has been many comments on us requiring a new form of propulsion, obviously not chemical rockets. Nuclear pulse propulsion. Could take a manned mission to Pluto and back in a year. The trick? Dropping .15kt nukes out the back of the ship and riding out the shockwave. Extremely effective. The original design is from the early 60's. They even wanted to launch the ship from the ground using this trick, and pogo-sticking to orbit. Hiroshima was 50kt, so there's little threat about a nuke going "astray."
Yeah, really. Now I want to go watch the movie again...
Hmm, This sounds a lot like every day in EVE, except for the other several thousand people doing the same thing.