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Of all the crazy shit that the government has spent money on, this one seems modest.

In the beginning of the Atomic Age, ('50-60's) Dyson Freeman was advocating shooting a mission to Mars using Atomic Rockets!

Really!

However despite proving that it was possible, they later decided that it was too much fallout.

Anyway I had the thought that a 50's era Stranglovian romance could be made of this.

:rolleyes:
 
The nuclear pulse propulsion concept (first developed as Project Orion, proposed in 1947) won't go away. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Alas, using such a system inside Earth's atmosphere would be rather nasty. In certain circumstances, like if Earth has been conquered by sexy interstellar sophont elephants (cf FOOTFALL by Niven & Pournelle), then the hard radiation might seem the lesser of evils. But if humanity ever gets its shit together and decides to leave Earth before we're clobbered by the next planet-buster asteroid, then a Project Orion-type system will definitely be cooking as an orbit-to-orbit drive. Watch out for backwash.
 
Bramblethorn said:
Back in that era they wanted to put nukes into everything. One of our mining magnates wanted to use them for civil engineering.
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I think it was Popular Science Magazine that reported a feasibility study for using nuclear explosives to dig a sea-level canal through Nicaragua. Sometime in the mid-60s IIRC.
 
I don't know what this has to do with writing, but ok, you hit my sci-fi nerve (real life no fiction, meh).

Nuclear propulsion is an excellent idea if you want to send a spacecraft somewhere that takes 10+ years to get to. Nuclear power + a little Solar power for an ion thruster, which gains thrust by using electricity to accelerate ions out the back.

Voyager 1 has a plutonium engine.
 
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Atomic Plot Bunny!


Damn! Now the little fuckers glow in the dark. :eek:
 
TxRad said:
Atomic Plot Bunny!

Damn! Now the little fuckers glow in the dark. :eek:
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Fuck the bunny. I want my atomic helicopter. They promised us atomic helicopters!! Without an atomic helicopter, my faith is shattered. And I gotta keep buying gas and screaming at fucktard terrestrial drivers. No, drivers in 3 dimensions couldn't be any worse than those in surface gridlock, especially since we're supposed to have robotic traffic controllers. I want to trust robots. They are so much steadier than humans.

Yes, atomic helicopters and autonomous humans, all watched over by machines of loving grace. Those were the promises. What do we get instead? Botched recalls and right-wing talk radio. Argh.
 
There was a proposal to use atomic explosions to carve a channel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Qatar depression, in North Africa, to create a large salt water lake that would change the climate of the area.
 
Hypoxia said:
The nuclear pulse propulsion concept (first developed as Project Orion, proposed in 1947) won't go away. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Alas, using such a system inside Earth's atmosphere would be rather nasty. In certain circumstances, like if Earth has been conquered by sexy interstellar sophont elephants (cf FOOTFALL by Niven & Pournelle), then the hard radiation might seem the lesser of evils. But if humanity ever gets its shit together and decides to leave Earth before we're clobbered by the next planet-buster asteroid, then a Project Orion-type system will definitely be cooking as an orbit-to-orbit drive. Watch out for backwash.
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"Footfall" was the first thing I thought of when I read the OP. I loved that story. And the cover art on the paperback, with the two-'trunked' alien looking around a corner with a mirror in one trunk and was there a gun in the other? and the idea of putting huge battleship main guns in orbit to shoot at the alien ship. Well with that kind of propulsion I guess you could have launched the whole battleship if you had enough warheads to get it off the ground LOL.
 
litmlove said:
I don't know what this has to do with writing
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The rule of thumb among some of us writers is that any interesting information has to do with writing as these are food for ideas and stories.

A more pertinent question would probably be, how can this be made erotic. Not sure I want to know as the first thing that popped to mind was an atomic rocket making love to Mars.... :devil:
 
Weird Harold said:
I think it was Popular Science Magazine that reported a feasibility study for using nuclear explosives to dig a sea-level canal through Nicaragua. Sometime in the mid-60s IIRC.
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I remember reading that story. But back in the 50s the military was was letting soldiers/sailors/airmen get exposed to the results of the above ground testing - probably to study the effects.
 
litmlove said:
I don't know what this has to do with writing...
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Are you sure? ;)



The tall muscular NASA engineer strolled casually over to the busty blonde Astronomer and handed her a daiquiri.

"Wanna see my atomic rocket baby. It can go on forever and take us to the stars."

She took a sip of the drink and sent him a sultry smile.

"Well, I can't deny that you radiate confidence, but are you prepared to deal with the fall-out?"

"What do you mean," he asked puzzled.

"Your wife is standing right behind you," she replied and turned away.


 
3113 said:
The rule of thumb among some of us writers is that any interesting information has to do with writing as these are food for ideas and stories.

A more pertinent question would probably be, how can this be made erotic. Not sure I want to know as the first thing that popped to mind was an atomic rocket making love to Mars.... :devil:
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Hmmm. The radiation has altered her hormones so that she MUST. HAVE. MEN. NOW. She hungers she needs, she burns for men, for cocks and for semen. And when she has drained the men, she hungers for food, raw, warm, bloody meat. Living, kicking screaming men that die under her radiation enhanced muscles and strong jaws that rip the living flesh from them as they lay there sated from their labours between her legs.

mwahahaha.

erotic horror?
 
litmlove said:
I don't know what this has to do with writing, but ok, you hit my sci-fi nerve (real life no fiction, meh).

Nuclear propulsion is an excellent idea if you want to send a spacecraft somewhere that takes 10+ years to get to. Nuclear power + a little Solar power for an ion thruster, which gains thrust by using electricity to accelerate ions out the back.

Voyager 1 has a plutonium engine.
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Not quite. It has a plutonium radiothermal generator that provides electricity to run its systems, but for propulsion it uses chemical rocket engines. Or maybe "used"; as far as I know it's been coasting for a long time, but I could be mistaken.

And, yeah, nuclear-powered ion thrusters are promising, especially for deep-space applications where solar gets scarce. But that's rather different to Orion, which is about literal bomb blasts for propulsion. Great power-to-mass ratio but you need a pretty big ship to make it viable, and getting that into orbit without fallout is a problem.
 
In the you tube show it talked about how Dyson's son had to deal with his famous father, and growing up expecting to go to the stars.

I had thought that using his angst and coming to grips with the help of a an acolyte of his father's who shows him the "Stars of the Earth" as the front story, and the Pentagon's insane pursuit of a "Death Star" as a Stranlovian background. :)
 
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