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Posted by tourdemars to Technology at August 2, 2004 12:35 PM
NASA is thinking about using nuclear boosters to lift rockets into orbit at a fraction of the cost of today's all-chemical launchers. The agency hopes the public will be less resistant to nuclear-assisted rockets now that the Bush administration is considering a return to nuclear power. But anti-nuclear protesters claim nuclear launchers would make accidents much more damaging and accuse NASA of "playing Russian roulette".TrackBack URL for this entry:
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It's time we told the nutty-paranoid anti-nuke crowd in general to take a long walk off a short pier. Nuke power is no more unsafe than conventional power sources, and properly is more eco-friendly.
We need nukes to reduce the hold the filthy scumbag arabs have on our testicles, and to powers us more efficiently and with much greater speed back to the moon and on to Mars and the other planets. Using conventional rockets, such trips take many months or even years; with the steady acceleration advanced nukes could provide, those times could be reduced to a few weeks of months at most.
It's time. To hell with the anti-nuke morons.
They've held us back far too long already.
Gerald Jennings
Posted by: Jerry at August 2, 2004 08:10 PM