George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Feb 19, 2008
http://www.ted.com George Dyson tells the amazing story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. With a priceless insider's perspective and a cache of documents, photos and film, Dyson brings this dusty Atomic Age dream to vivid life.
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The whole course of humanity going into space would have been so different if this project had gotten off the ground and worked.
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with this technology we could have defeated the energy gridlock, the population explosion we would have a strong hedge against nuclear or bioterrorism, but instead we mothball our greatest technology so we can continue feeding welfare bums paying for uninsured sluts to have abortions and shooting galleries for the junkies to shoot their junk in. The human race fully deserves its impending extinction for not taking advantage of incredibly simple technology that could turn it all around. :(
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@Hottides "govt is desperately attempting to keep from us" ==> meaning the US actually finds a practical way of traveling between planets but then tries to erase all knowledge of it from memory
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@mikeyjz I was talking about radiation protection.
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@coinageboy They were going to do it in space...radiation dissipates after a few months
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@thomasford actually big nukes would destroy the ship. You would need 800 tiny nukes
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@Palpatineli Depleted uranium makes for a far thinner, lighter, and more efficient shield
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That's hilarious...
In only 40 years we've forgotten so much.
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What precisely is "govt is desperately attempting to keep from us"? Government's not responsible for educating you. It's you responsibility to EDUCATE YOURSELF about the world and the wider Cosmos.
Hottides 3 years ago 10
Is he still alive ? Or did an "accident" occur a few days after? lol
stevenaudet 3 years ago 7