> From: Robert J. Chassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Project Orion > by George Dyson > 2002, Henry Holt and Co > ISBN 0-8050-7284-5 (pbk) > > Recently, George Dyson wrote a book on Project Orion, a project on > which his father, Freeman Dyson, worked in the late 1950s. The > project designed a heavy spaceship that could carry people to other > planets in a reasonably time. The spaceship would be driven by > exploding nuclear bombs behind it, one or two very second for 10 or 20 > minutes. (As I say below, it occurs to me that the Chinese might want > to fund such a project now.) Shhhhh... Don't give them any ideas! Sheesh. Obligatory third line. Obligatory <grin> tag. - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
