Quote (Veilside @ Mon, Mar 2 2009, 05:36am)

Launching stuff into space currently costs millions of dollars, but a cheaper alternative has existed for decades. For those of you unfamiliar with Project Orion, it's basically spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.



So, what do you think, is such an important project worth cancelling because of possible fallout (bearing in mind fallout depends on where the launch is located)? Are governments being stupid in not using this technology?

Here's a video of a test flight in 1959.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCrPNEsQaY

Quote (TheGodFath3r @ Sat, Mar 7 2009, 05:34pm)

Build it inside of a bigger rocket that'll  launch a nuclear power rocket!! I'm a fucking genius ... yea right... watch the inner rocket explode before launch T_T