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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, April 04, 2022

How large a "fusion pulse", could a spacecraft possibly withstand?

I'm thinking in terms of Project Orion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) and subsequent efforts and ideas. Is there any possibility, at all, of a spacecraft withstanding, and exploiting a nuclear explosion, perhaps a small H-bomb, of 100 kilotons, for example? And of most, or all, of the energy in the explosion actually serving to propel said spacecraft? http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion

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