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Well, combustion engine in my car is not very conventional either by XIX century standards. Maybe we should ride horses? Why you make assumption that bombs mus
by daliusd 14y ago
Well, combustion engine in my car is not very conventional either by XIX century standards. Maybe we should ride horses?
Why you make assumption that bombs must be delivered to space vs constructed there from resources mined in asteroids?
- jff 14y agoPlutonium ain't easy, so you'd probably want to ship pre-made pits into orbit (we've got plenty already made), preferably one at a time so we don't get a big critical mass of plutonium sitting in a desert in case the rocket crashes.
- CapitalistCartr 14y agoPlutonium is a synthetic element, requiring a nuclear reactor to create, then must be purified. Uranium is currently unknown in asteroids, and even if it were found would require refining with thousands of large centrifuges. Converting uranium to uranium hexafluoride, centrifuging it over and over, then converting it back requires massive industrial facilities, currently impossible in space.
- daliusd 14y agoWhat about moon? I'm pretty sure that smart people will figure out the solution. I just wanted to point out that most probably we can find solutions that are safe enough and the only limiting factor is our imagination (or lack of it specifically).