Whatever We're getting for the money, $8 billion is more than half the
annual NASA budget. The armed forces have a few more pennies than that to
play with. BTW if we do build a nuclear reactor powered Jupiter boat,
should we be using MPD rather ion drives? They're supposed to be much more
efficient at higher powers than ion, and they could scoop hydrogen from
Jupiter to refuel.
"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:04:39 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Tony Sivori made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Jim Kingdon wrote:

And are you ready for this - it would be called the JIMO! :-)

The key thing here is "$8 billion".

Hey, that's quite a bargain compared to $87 Billion (for starters) to
pull
a deposed despot out of a hole in the ground.

We're getting much more than that for the money.