We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real
The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real
The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
On a sunny day (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:54:24 -0700) it happened john larkin ><jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <hkss9j9bcm63k7d9lte7bfn2jih1e3pkm4@4ax.com>:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real
The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware. >>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
Yes, OTOH some projects have been cancelled, like that moon rover thing:
https://www.space.com/nasa-cancels-viper-moon-rover-budget
Nuclear is an obvious choice for space propulsion to get to other planets. >The cold war induced nuclear fear has prohibited that for many years now.
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:12:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:54:24 -0700) it happened john larkin
<jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <hkss9j9bcm63k7d9lte7bfn2jih1e3pkm4@4ax.com>:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
It helps that travelers will already get a lethal dose of radiation
from cosmic rays, so we don't have to waste spacecraft mass by
shielding the reactors.
On 22/07/2024 15:54, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real
The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware. >>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
I don't think it is money that they are addicted to if they intend to >actually make one of those things. Synthetic opioids seems more likely.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
Unmanned space science probes are worthwhile. Orbiting tin cans are not.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real
The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:24:00 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
On 22/07/2024 15:54, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
Weâre building thermonuclear spaceships againâthis time for real >>>> The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware. >>>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
I don't think it is money that they are addicted to if they intend to
actually make one of those things. Synthetic opioids seems more likely.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
Unmanned space science probes are worthwhile. Orbiting tin cans are not.
But we can't allow the Chinese to Dominate Space.
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:12:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:54:24 -0700) it happened john larkin >><jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <hkss9j9bcm63k7d9lte7bfn2jih1e3pkm4@4ax.com>:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real >>>>The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware. >>>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
Yes, OTOH some projects have been cancelled, like that moon rover thing:
https://www.space.com/nasa-cancels-viper-moon-rover-budget
Nuclear is an obvious choice for space propulsion to get to other planets. >>The cold war induced nuclear fear has prohibited that for many years now.
It helps that travelers will already get a lethal dose of radiation
from cosmic rays, so we don't have to waste spacecraft mass by
shielding the reactors.
On a sunny day (Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:11:40 -0700) it happened john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <ucev9jhbk2jaf1ovhc5fa3cdui4osf0olp@4ax.com>:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:12:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:54:24 -0700) it happened john larkin >>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <hkss9j9bcm63k7d9lte7bfn2jih1e3pkm4@4ax.com>:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
We’re building thermonuclear spaceships again—this time for real >>>>> The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware. >>>>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/were-building-thermonuclear-spaceships-again-this-time-for-real/
Mars in 45 days...
NASA is addicted to money, and they need something to spend it on,
after they burn up the ISS.
Pity that they want to waste it on "Space" and not "Aeronautics."
Yes, OTOH some projects have been cancelled, like that moon rover thing: >>> https://www.space.com/nasa-cancels-viper-moon-rover-budget
Nuclear is an obvious choice for space propulsion to get to other planets. >>> The cold war induced nuclear fear has prohibited that for many years now. >>
It helps that travelers will already get a lethal dose of radiation
from cosmic rays, so we don't have to waste spacecraft mass by
shielding the reactors.
I am a bit sceptical about all that radiation fear.
Wildlife is flourishing in the Tjernobyl area, mostly
because there are now no humans there to kill it.
Very few if any malformed creatures are found.
I once got a job via an agency in a place (accelerator) here that did a lot with radioactive stuff,
I quit the first day after I noticed how careless they were.
Years later via agency got an other job there in a different department not so much involved with radiation..
Anyways ... left after the max allowed time (was 6 month here via agency), started my own company a bit later
Then the newspapers .. big radiation contamination in that place...
World goes on, we had Tjernobyl fallout here too:
warnings like 'do not eat stuff from your garden'.
That later made me build some radiation detectors..
Levels are still normal (logging 24/7) here.
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/sc_pic/PMT_with_radium_in_bag_img_2482.jpg
This is nice, logs wherever you go and write s GPS coordinates to SDcard so you cab see where the hot place was if you start to shine ...:-)
Or do some prospecting for Uranium...
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/gm_pic2/
lost my rad fear...
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