On Nov 2, 2:18*am, "Mike Dworetsky"
wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:58:54 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
Brad Guth wrote in
:

We do seem to have a fly-by-rocket lander gap, including the one of
our Apollo era that doesn't seem to work as we've been told. *No
doubt those Long March landers will come in real handy, and we can
rent them for a million dollars per hour or per kg of payload (plus
the usual tax, insurance and fuel).

Btw, even 0.1 G worth of constant acceleration/deceleration is going
to make at least those most nearby exoplanets doable. *Fusion rockets
such as those offered by William Mook should more than do the trick.

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I was thinking that if all those flights to the International Space
Junk Station had been used to build a huge nuclear powered
interplanetary spacecraft.... then we would not have to burn it up in
the atmosphere and endanger humanity with the debris, but could fly
to the planets with a travel time of only weeks.

An Orion type spacecraft (that uses exploding atomic bombs and a pusher
plate) is an idea that has been around for a long time and is technically
feasible, but would you want the treaty on the ban of nuclear devices in
outer space to be annulled?

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Mike Dworetsky

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Is that anything like the ban on bogus wars and false flag black ops?