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10-12-2008, 12:16 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun Click on this link to see some neat pictures and information for this contraption. Dark Roasted Blend: Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun
__________________ "Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?" |
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10-12-2008, 12:21 AM
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| It's utterly amazing that we have survived as a species.. . |
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10-12-2008, 12:26 AM
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| I'm all for pushing the extremes of technology, but you also have to be practical about it. To the engineers 50 years ago who thought up this idea ..."Just WTF were YOU thinking"?
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10-12-2008, 12:29 AM
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| Truth is often stranger than fiction.. . |
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10-12-2008, 09:23 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Amen to that. Wanna get to the stars? Pick up an Arthur C. Clarke book. Most of his stories included step-by-step instructions on how the drives worked.
__________________  Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast. |
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10-12-2008, 11:35 AM
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__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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10-12-2008, 11:41 AM
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| Um yeah 1000!!!!! nuclear bombs for the medium version!!!!!!!
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10-14-2008, 08:09 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Deep in suburban Surrey
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 | You absolutely must read Footfall by Niven and Pournelle - It's one of the best alien invasion novels ever written imo. The destruction of the Hoover Dam, the Kansas Jayhawks, a mothership of massive size, meteor attacks, lasers, weird-shaped aliens, AND the nuclear powered ship - it's all there, and in absolutely gripping and believable detail too... a truly epic scifi novel and a mere 700 pages...
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10-14-2008, 08:16 PM
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10-15-2008, 10:36 PM
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| Stick with the rocket fuel guys 
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