Moonstruck

[Monte Davis]

As for Orion, as both Freeman and George Dyson make clear,  it made sense
only at a time when atmospheric nuclear weapons tests were routine. Once
that (blessedly) passed, the desire for easier access to space access just
wasn't/isn't enough to justify the downside of fallout and of a "fuel"
industry cranking out thousands of mini-nukes.

Orion could still work out in space, but that first step through the
atmosphere -- 100 miles and 18,000 mph to low orbit -- is what makes space
so costly and constrained.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks!  Though, having watched the moon landing w/ my dad whilst
> building a Saturn V model, replete with capsule + lander, I remain a
> big fan of the space program, + hope to see the human element
> reinstated/installed.  I saw astronauts golfing on the moon.  Why
> aren't they golfing on Mars by now?
>
> "Will our new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon? I dream of a
> great glass sphere, hollow and very high and far away . . . the
> colonists have learned to do without air, it's vacuum inside and out
> ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 729)
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PT539#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Project Orion
>
> http://books.google.com/books/about/Project_Orion.html?id=r_Gu4f0QxrkC
>
> Ascension
>
> http://www.syfy.com/ascension
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:28 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://issues.org/23-2/br_roland-3/
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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