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Project Orion is one of the stupidest, most wonderful ideas ever conceived in America.

• tesseract 18y ago
  _Project Orion_ by George Dyson is a decent book about the project. In addition to the historical narrative, it has some good and detailed (for a popularization, anyway) explanations of how the technology was supposed to work.
• lupin_sansei 18y ago
  An interesting story on Atomic Spacecraft here http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=679 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=679
• newt0311 18y ago
  kewl.
• rms 18y ago
  Come on, Project Orion wasn't stupid.
  • tdoggette 18y ago
    ...for certain values of "stupid."
    • rms 18y ago
      We could build an interstellar spacecraft if our society took science seriously.
• deleted 18y ago
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