Matt²
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I'm having a very difficult time rationalizing all the fanfare and excitement being ginned up over NASA's Orion Mission. I mean has it occurred to anyone that our civilization uses a technology, for achieving orbital escape velocity, that is still basically glorified bottle-rocket science invented in China during the Three Kingdoms period nearly 2,000 years ago. Has it also occurred to anyone else that there is something very wrong with that?
I do. But, not just wrong, it's nonsensically disturbing.
Besides the fact it has to be the ridiculously least efficient method, obscenely expensive, but mostly and worst of all, that it's unconscionably dangerous.
And what an enormously sad joke on humanity. All one need do is spend an hour net searching advanced propulsion systems to realize there is technology already available, and has been for decades, that makes the Delta IV Heavy rocket look exactly like a bottle rocket from Iron Age China.
Matt²
I do. But, not just wrong, it's nonsensically disturbing.
Besides the fact it has to be the ridiculously least efficient method, obscenely expensive, but mostly and worst of all, that it's unconscionably dangerous.
And what an enormously sad joke on humanity. All one need do is spend an hour net searching advanced propulsion systems to realize there is technology already available, and has been for decades, that makes the Delta IV Heavy rocket look exactly like a bottle rocket from Iron Age China.
Matt²