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Comment Re:Screw the Moon and Mars...build a Real Space Sh (Score 3, Informative) 146

It could've existed if not for irrational fear of everything "atomic".

Guys who built them bombs in Manhattan Project were planning to personally cruise solar system in actual spaceships (size of a, well, ocean ship), propelled by detonation of small bombs behind, once a second. Physics and engineering actually worked!

Look up "Project Orion", or read George Dyson's book (his dad Freeman was one of the leaders).

Paul B.

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