Moonstruck

[Dave Monroe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
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