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denizyuret's review against another edition
3.0
http://denizyuret.blogspot.com/2007/02/project-orion-by-george-dyson.html
markfoskey's review against another edition
3.0
It is an amazing thing that a group of first-rate physicists and engineers once took seriously the idea of a capsule the size of a yacht being lofted into space by hundreds of atomic bombs, but they did. A lot of them never quit taking it seriously.
My impressions:
1. Fallout is a showstopper for the ground-launched version.
2. Launching hundreds of nuclear bombs into space from earth, by whatever means, seems pretty dangerous. Politically it would never fly, and I agree with the public on this one.
3. It's still the only plausible way of sending people to the outer solar system, if we ever decide we need to do that.
The book was interesting but it didn't sparkle. If you want to know about the Orion project then it's indispensible, but I wanted it to be a book I could enjoy more.
My impressions:
1. Fallout is a showstopper for the ground-launched version.
2. Launching hundreds of nuclear bombs into space from earth, by whatever means, seems pretty dangerous. Politically it would never fly, and I agree with the public on this one.
3. It's still the only plausible way of sending people to the outer solar system, if we ever decide we need to do that.
The book was interesting but it didn't sparkle. If you want to know about the Orion project then it's indispensible, but I wanted it to be a book I could enjoy more.
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