Yes, good 'old Stanton F.... Now, while he was an expert on nuclear
propulsion back in the 50's,,, and he certainly has made a living doing
lectures on
flying saucers and ufos and/or the Gov coverup,,, a fact still remains that
no-one down here will likely ever know the full extent of the extremely
highly developed level of sophistication and capacity of the technology that
advanced civilizations have created over the millions if not billions of
years,,, that is now enabling them to 'Be' in-space (in the absolute), as
opposed
to living a relatively short-lived life down here (thanks, but no thanks).
There's only one system that can take us to the stars
w/o trouble or fail,,, not 2, 3, 4, or 12, or 20,,, just 'One' and 'Only' One.
> Technological perfection will take many thousands, if not hundreds of
thousands, or millions of years of phenomenally costly R&D of the highly
specified materials, along with the 'One' process that can enable a Perfected
Independent Light Energy/Propulsion State to be achieved',,, of which, can only
happen when all mechanical-energy and/or this dibilitating
biological-baggage has been completely eliminated (bummer!).
Sadly, for our race of times-long-past
biologically-dependent human beings, and/or the mode of functionality
associated with it,
we will not likely soon, even consider the One System that simply put, has
no equal,,, of which, is largely due to the hard cold fact that it is not as
simple as most humanosaurs tend to think (actually, dinosaurs did alot of
chomping & chewing, while consuming mass quantites).
<< Stanton does a chapter on nuclear propulsion, which he worked on in the
1950's. I had no clue how far along this technology was. If we would
have continued we may have had probes at the nearest stars by now. Then
again we may have had another nuclear mess.
I liked the idea of ejecting fast neutrons as a propellant. They go at
10% the speed of light and may have produced a measurable continuous
thrust for some time. The goal is one g of thrust for one year, that
would get us out there. Shielding was a problem with nuclear reactors in space
and, perhaps, the shielding effect of cold fusion may now offer a
solution, I don't know. >>
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