Motive:#2

Children's books and desks and toys incinerated. They will try to burn your neighborhood school too, with atomic fire when they can.

AP

Thanks to No Pasaran


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Motive #1

All in: 2017

" China, which launched its first manned space mission just two years ago, plans to put a man on the moon around 2017"

Yahoo

"I wonder if President Bush and Mike Griffin are going to shoot for 2016 now..."-Space Pragmatism

Image from Prof's Poker blog

JFK's Second State of the Union Speech May 25, 1961

"..this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."-http://www.luminet.net/~tgort/moon.htm
Audio

"We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations"

"Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the Moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself."

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This set the spending priorities for the decade, huge funding for Saturn (ISP 3-400), medium for Rover(ISP 800), small for Orion(ISP 4-12,000).

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Centauiri Dreams

Fly me to the Moon

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The Eternal Golden Braid

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The Mission of the Strategic Air Command - 1961

The Mission of the Strategic Air Command - 1961

Narrated by General Thomas S. Power, the commander and chief of the Strategic Air Command.

Available on DVD

NASA's curent Atomic drive program

High speed travel is required to avoid exposure to natural radiation.

May be outsourced to Japan.

Terraforming

"Four worlds are at about the right size and mass to be candidates for terraforming. These worlds are Venus, Mars, Europa (a moon of Jupiter), and Titan (a moon of Saturn.)"-Mark R. Whittington

2001 Script, the version with Orion pulse drives

PART III
14 MONTHS LATER

b69a
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C1
DISCOVERY 1,000,000
MILES FROM EARTH.
SEE EARTH AND MOON
SMALL.

WE SEE A BLINDING
FLASH EVERY 5
SECONDS FROM ITS
NUCLEAR PULSE
PROPULSION. IT
STRIKES AGAINST
THE SHIP'S THICK
ABLATIVE TAIL
PLATE.

SEVERAL CUTS OF
THIS.

Listen to Apollo 11

Apollo 11-The entire air-to-ground communications

Cleanest Atomic test

"The test detonation with the largest portion of total yield coming from fusion was probably the Redwing Navajo test shot. 95% of the 4.5 megatonne yield came from fusion, making it remarkably clean."

The Joy of High Tech

by

Rodford Edmiston

Image from vce.com

Asteroid Impact Simulator

Earth Impact Effects Program

Artistic Inspiration

Classic Covers

from sfcovers.net

Design for Survival excerpt#6 :SAC Budget

During the 1950s, SAC received 47 percent of the U.S. military budget.

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"SAC's share of the defense budget, which was 13 percent in Fiscal Year 1962, countinues to decline. The figures for the nation's entire strategic nuclear deterrent went from about 18 percent of the defense budget in 1962 down to some ten percent in Fiscal Year 1965 and are likely to decrease considerably more in future bugets." - Thomas S. Power's Design for Survival page 197
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Index of Power
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Fiscal 1964.

He also mentioned that as far as the military aspects of space are concerned, we are not going fast enough.

General LeMay emphasized that his biggest worry is in the strategic field and that the trend is bad. He felt that the trend is toward an all-missile force, and he has two or three objections; first, with an all-missile force we were simplifying the Russian program; secondly, we were moving away from the flexibility that we now have in our strategic forces; and third, intelligence estimates indicate that more flexibility is needed, not less. He stated that he had given all these arguments to the Secretary and had been properly heard, but his misgivings were still strong.



The President then questioned the group in regard to the number of Minutemen, Polaris and Titan missiles, and opened a discussion on the Soviet missile capability. All this was discussed at some length and General LeMay pointed out again that our main objective was not to match missile for missile but to deter any war from starting. The basic question to answer is: what will deter the Soviet Union? His own answer was that the flexibility of the mixed force was much more potent in deterrence--especially in deterring the conventional war--than an all-missile force.

$44 billion up to $49 billion and that we are now at $52 billion





The President pointed out that he had two concerns about this budget: transport, both sea and air, and communications.



There was some discussion about the lead time on the C-130. The Chiefs felt that it is roughly eighteen months, but Secretary McNamara believes that it is more like 9-12 months lead time.

George Dyson on Google and John von Neumann

"My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. "

Edge.org

Hugo Angel comments

von Neumann in Project Orion

von Neumann also plays a big role in Ted Taylor's unfinished book Changes of Heart

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American Digest
Clarity and Resolve
Feisty
Screed Blog
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Polistra's mill
robot_guy
silent running
slublog
The AnarchAngel
The Daily Ablution
the political teen

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