I read today that Bush and Putin are talking about getting rid of a lot of nukes. So why not put them to use?
Build an Orion, which is basically a spaceship powered by nuclear bombs. Imagaine a giant, upside down bowl with a hab unit and storage up on the top of it. Build the bowl out of a buttload of heavy metals, reinforce it with cooling units and shock dampners, and then set off as succession of nukes beneath it. That ship would move, I guarantee it. Great way to get a few hundered thousand (maybe even millions) of pounds of construction material into space quickly.
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I read today that Bush and Putin are talking about getting rid of a lot of nukes. So why not put them to use?
Build an Orion, which is basically a spaceship powered by nuclear bombs. Imagaine a giant, upside down bowl with a hab unit and storage up on the top of it. Build the bowl out of a buttload of heavy metals, reinforce it with cooling units and shock dampners, and then set off as succession of nukes beneath it. That ship would move, I guarantee it. Great way to get a few hundered thousand (maybe even millions) of pounds of construction material into space quickly.
Read 'Footfall' by Niven for more info on that.