a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scott Lowther on Project Orion

...so long as it's well clear of the Van Allen Belts, sure.





mknod  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

NIMBY!

kleinbl00  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This put my dad out of a job.

Or, more specifically, punted him from tracking satellites in Oahu to tracking satellites in Thule. Thule was not good for him.

mknod  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow. I hadn't heard of that event before.

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA009208

And now I'm hiding all of my electronic devices in very well insulated Faraday cage.

kleinbl00  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Starfish Prime did help everybody discover the EMP, but the satellites it killed, it killed due to lingering radiation in the Van Allen belts. That's the truly shitty thing about orbit - nothing "goes away" it either burns up in the atmosphere eventually or drifts out into graveyard orbit.

Assuming it doesn't hit anything. Which is not a good assumption.