George Dyson On the Orion Project: A Nuclear, Saturn-Bound, Hotel-Sized Spaceship That Should Have Happened

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TheGeorge Dysonvideo from 2002 ’s TED just went live , describe the Orion Project , a deep classified space vas from the Atomic Age . It was nuclear powered . The size of a Marriott hotel and 400 tons . George Dyson ’s father worked on it , start in General Atomic in 1957 . Did I observe that scientists from the hydrogen bomb exercise on this affair ? Why ? Because the nukes were n’t used as fuel like they are at Homer Simpson ’s workplace . They were hoping to smash the atom and direct the explosions for 20 megaton of facelift !

make the time inning , the planners on the Orion had even work up in defence reaction systems meant to strike back against the Russians . This project was the first contract bridge fund by DARPA . In this video , George also step through rider acceleration profiles , emergency programme if Orion failed to reset the atmosphere and the not so cool 700 rads of irradiation you ’d get while riding it . George ’s last take ? If an asteroid headed for our planet , an Orion type ship is one of the only emergency plans that NASA could depend on , “ off the ledge . ” And that ’s why NASA bought roughly 1700 pages of the notes he roll up on Orion from him .

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