Re: EARTHSTORM -- Easter Sunday on Sci-Fi!!

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pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> way. Granted, they have auxiliary strap on nuclear engines that
>> no one had ever built or tried before as well.
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> Do a little searching on the NERVA project. It's an
> almost-forgotten technology that everyone of the era assumed was
> going to be the future of rocketry. Heinlein loved to use
> NERVA-style propulsion systems in his ****ps for example - "The
> Rolling Stones" discusses nuclear rockets in quite some detail.

NERVA, shmerva -- I want *Orion* nuclear propulsion!

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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