William Mook:
Nuclear pulse propulsion and nuclear thermal solid core rockets are at
either end of a continuum that includes liquid core rockets and gas
core rockets.

The working codes and actual technical details obviously have
significant weapons applications - so any work which might have been
completed over the past 60 years most likely has been completed in
secrecy.

I'd have to agree, even though it seems perfectly spendy but otherwise
technically doable for your 900,000 lbs worth of combined thrust at
pad lift off, for getting those 75 tons of payload entirely away from
Earth so quickly is after all only ten fold better fly-by-rocket
performance than all of the smoke and mirrors worth of what our
semitic Third Reich created Saturn V supposedly accomplished (of
course that kind of Saturn V performance has never been otherwise
replicated, not even close).

So, once again, why are you not running all of this through any one of
dozens of our public owned physics supercomputers, thus accomplishing
your vertual R&D that can be taken to the bank?

Is there really all that much of anything such physics programmed
supercomputers can't do?

Otherwise, where's that fancy Google/NOVA 3D animation (made for TV)
production for essentially knocking our socks off? (indirectly you and
I own at least part of that battery of supercomputers as well) Such
corporations always take multiple tax credits for such investments,
don't they. So, essentially we the public end up owning much if not
most all of their
old stuff that's often not more than 3 years outdated.

What's the matter; isn't this atomic thrust boosted rocket an ideal
physics supercomputer kind of R&D thing?
- Brad Guth -