Space Review comment: A Nuclear Thermal Rocket, for fantastic expense, roughly doubles the Isp of chemical rockets…using a source of energy literally one million times more powerful. Stan Ulam, who is sometimes credited with being the real father of the hydrogen bomb, considered this problem and realized it is difficult just keeping a chemical rocketContinue reading “A Nuclear Free Earth”
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Not My Last Comments
Despite having left my toxic online community….I still have some things to say and The Space Review seems willing to let me post occasionally. And then allow others to trivialize, mock, and denigrate me. But whoever is moderating must be throwing out most of the replies because they are just not vicious and disgusting enoughContinue reading “Not My Last Comments”
Nukes in Space
The solution to nuclear deterrence is to place the nuclear arsenal months in deep space on human-crewed “Space Boomer.” It solves several problems. The first problem is deterrence. The second problem is launch-on-warning, and the third problem is climate change. From the Slate article: “Maybe it’s because of the wars in Ukraine and the MiddleContinue reading “Nukes in Space”
Ice on the Moon 