Message to "Elon"

Hi: This is Myname 271, and, I have to admit, although I still don’t think you’re Elon Musk, you are putting on a very good Elon Musk act, so, I thought you might be at least a bright graduate student in engineering and worth talking to. I can understand you would be less than enthusiastic about me ridiculing the Starship in public, that’s fair enough. I guess, at the very least, it might be a kind of reducto ad absurdam to the whole massive liquid fueled rocket concept, so, even if it never works, the mere fact that it never works is a kind of experiment in itself, and proves the need to move on to other more advanced technologies, and, that in itself might prove useful. I think what looks most promising to me are variations on the Project Orion concept, from the early 1960's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) The Cuban Missile Crisis largely sidetracked this research, because people became frightened of the real possibility of a thermonuclear war, and tight controls were put on all future use of nuclear "weapons", even for peacetime purposes. Conventional controlled nuclear fusion research appears to be something of a dead end. Sure, it's pretty safe. It's also totally useless! Billions of dollars to, at best, produce enough power to light a few light bulbs for a few minutes, if that. There are small A-bombs in the American nuclear arsenal that only produce conventional levels of explosive yield, but, they're still very expensive to produce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54 If the price could be brought down considerably, and radiation yields could be reduced, then there might be some potential to use these for space propulsion. There are other more exotic possibilities that have been explored: https://defence.pk/threads/nuclear-bullets-the-most-dangerous-soviet-project.526352/ Soviet nuclear bullets! Yes indeed, actual nuclear bombs the size of a bullet, made out of Californium, believe it or not. It's unclear exactly how far the Soviets got with this, but, it might have some interesting applications. Could a nuclear bullet be used to trigger a very small H-bomb, and could the nuclear material be dispersed sufficiently to render the "bomb" less explosive, and more of a drawn out nuclear reaction, something between a conventional nuclear reaction, and a "bomb", something that could actually power a well-reinforced rocket? How cheaply could this be produced, and how efficient a source of energy might it be? https://www.quora.com/profile/ (https://www.quora.com/profile/)Myname-271