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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Also, I read today that the X-33 is going to be the planform for the President's CEV to the moon and Mars. And it is going to be nuclear-powered, very much like our nuclear submarines.[/QUOTE]Can you say "pipe dream"? At this stage in the game, there are many, many problems with that assertion. First, for the CEV the folks at NASA are looking for a small, simple vehicle using [i]existing technology[/i] for practical purposes. With the meager funding that Dubya's proposing, they're not going to be inventing new branches of theoretical physics to propel this ship. And there's no way in hell people would accept a nuclear reactor on one of those things. Think of the uproar from the Greenpeace people when [i]Cassini[/i] was launched towards Saturn? After the loss of [i]Columbia[/i], nobody's going to want to have a nuke reentering the atmosphere. Davok: Just 9 volts? I'd love to see a link to corrobrate that -- if so, it'd be amazing! (BTW, I'm not being negative here, just very skeptical and disillusioned with the current pace of scientific advancement.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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