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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Irishman: [QB]For the short 10-20 minutes the reactor would be in atmospheric flight from the launchpad to LEO, the risk would be minimal.[/QUOTE]And only [i]slightly[/i] increased by the ignition of many thousands of tons of chemical explosives directly underneath it? Sure, that's the ticket! And I take it you've got an extremely short memory for you to forget that reentry can be a dangerous time too. Take a look at some of the news footage of the [i]Columbia[/i] going down. They found debris from the shuttle across an area 380 by 230 miles -- that's [b]87,400 square miles[/b]. Would [b]you[/b] want to risk the possibility of a nuclear reactor traveling at Mach 18 and raining down on [b]your[/b] civilian population? I think not. [QUOTE]the last I checked, the space program is a volunteer organization, at least in America. Noone is forced to be put in these dangerous situations.[/QUOTE]I'm talking about the danger to bystanders, not the crew themselves. Look, I have the same sentiments as you -- we need to keep pushing out into space, we need a motivated volunteer astronaut corps, and so forth. But I think you're vastly overestimating both our practical technological capabilities and the government's ability to put it to use. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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