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Old October 21st 07, 03:08 PM posted to sci.space.policy
BradGuth
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Default Apollo Era Gas Core Nuclear Rocket Powered Moonship

On Oct 21, 2:49 am, Monte Davis wrote:
Damon Hill wrote:
Right. Now all you have to do is actually build a gas
core engine.


Therein lies a substantial challenge.


Why should it be? With all the expertise we've acquired in decades of
running fusion reactors and scramjets -- the total mastery of
turbulence in high-energy, high-gradient flows -- it should be a snap.


I agree, as then we should use any one of our supercomputers to nail
it down. Isn't that exactly what such public owned supercomputers
that run those nifty 3D interactive physics simulators do best?
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