Editing Talk:2423: Project Orion

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If you read xkcd long enough, the comics always tend toward being about conversations tending toward something. (Okay, that’s not true; there’s one other comic like this and it was a conversation tending toward being about species tending toward being built like crabs. Still funny to think about, though.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.244|108.162.215.244]] 01:09, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
:All xkcd comics eventually become conversations about conversations. [[User:Captain Video|Captain Video]] ([[User talk:Captain Video|talk]]) 01:15, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out that "dusty plasma fission fragment rockets" is a [[856:_Trochee_Fixation|series of trochees]].[[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.117|162.158.183.117]] 05:45, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
: TIL trochee means something different for English than for Greek, Latin, Hungarian etc. [[User:Torzsmokus|Torzsmokus]] ([[User talk:Torzsmokus|talk]]) 08:35, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

The current explanation mentions other examples of topics, specialists from different fields apparently tend to converge on. Can anyone confirm whether those are actually true, or at least commonly known stereotypes? I've never heard of any such claim. The claim being, that all conversations converge on these topics, not the topics themselves. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 13:35, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Now I understand a bit better what may have influenced some plot elements of Neal Stephenson's book Anathem.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.220|172.69.62.220]] 15:28, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
:More specifically? It's not striking a chord for me. All Sci-Fi conversations eventually come around to multiverse phenomena? [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 20:12, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
::Well, there definitely was an Orionesque system. With the pre-detection theorising by the core characters ''possibly'' being juxtaposed with more mundane gardening information within the Math/enclave. (Must re-read it!) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.55.104|172.69.55.104]] 21:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

== I don't think that modern engineering can make project Orion safe. ==

While modern engineering can perhaps make some forms of nuclear propulsion safe(ish) and I think that stuff like nuclear thermal rockets could be great in some roles, I don't think that we are close to being able to detonate nukes in Earths atmosphere safely. Safely enough for the people on the rocket, maybe, but not for the people eating their atomic dust. Like the plans for that giant hypersonic nuclear ramjet, it's awesome, and would likely work, but I don't see a way to clean up the emissions to anything like acceptable levels.

[[User:BlakeFelix|BlakeFelix]] ([[User talk:BlakeFelix|talk]]) 16:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)