Project Orion Law
March 15th, 2022 by G.
Glenn Reynolds is trying to find a way to make exploding nuclear bomb space ships — Project Orion — compatible with existing international agreements.
Make Project Orion Legal Again.
If that doesn’t grab you, I don’t know what to say.
One of my young fellas comes to me recently. “Dad, when I grow up, I decided I want to pilot a nuclear bomber.” “Why does that appeal to you, son?” Silence. Then we both burst into laughter.
E.C.
March 15, 2022
For the same reason, I assume, that my brother said at our Sunday dinner, with incalculable glee, “Oh, Heavenly Father loves explosions. Just look at the stars – they’re a self-sustaining nuclear fission process! I am just trying to be like Jesus.”
This, the weekend after we burned about 40 Christmas trees in our back lot (thankfully the fire marshal wasn’t called . . .)
My brother, the pyromaniac engineer, would LOVE the Orion project. In fact, I’m afraid to ask, but I’m pretty sure he already knows about it.
G
March 15, 2022
No family outing is complete without burning down 40 Christmas trees in the back yard.
E.C.
March 15, 2022
Oh, no, I’d say they mostly burned UP – 30 feet high, for at least a minute and a half. There was quite a whoosh . . . and a ring of blue fire that nearly overran the compost pile. Good clean fun, for sure, but I’m really glad it had been snowing most of the day.
Linkslinger
March 15, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)