1) The reaction control system (thrusters) are poorly positioned (or angled) if the bomb part weights nearly as much as the engine part. There are basically two ways to fix this. First would be to use Apollo style thrusters on sides. Those things point forward/aft and they work fine nea...
They are using full-blown freaking Excalibur bomb-pumped x-ray lasers! Not infrared, not visible light, not even ultraviolet. X-rays. Just like Teller intended. What's that you ask? What about the pumping bomb? Well, this is an Orion-drive, moron. That's whats driving the ship. Spit...
To engineers like myself, it is NOT wastes and can be recycled to extract a lot of useful material (uranium, non-bomb grade plutonium, and radioisotopes for medical and industrial uses) and in a non-proliferation and transparent manner. Reply Pete says: February 21, 2016 at 9:41 PM ...