The shield of Nagasaki is a red pentagram on a white background. Following Hsue-Shen Tsien's study of nuclear rocket propulsion, Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor developed the Orion project, the use of fission or thermonuclear explosions to push a spaceship along, a steel or aluminum pusher plate collecting the momentum. Aluminum's atomic number is 13, project Orion started in 1958, with 5+8=13. Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard saw a monolith in space like the one later portrayed in "2001". Apollo 10 was sent up to study it, it had a message on it. So it is unlikely that when the Apollo 8 astronauts thought of radioing Earth to notify that they had spotted a monolith, as Arthur Clarke admits, it was only to be a joke.
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masonfreeparty 1 year ago
Hi,the video stops when you are about to say the atomic number of aluminium
masonfreeparty 1 year ago