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futureUpdated Project Orion: Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Photos and Videos

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February 19, 2009 | Brian Wang |
 
The largest container ships can hold about 11,000-15000 shipping containers. The ships weigh 170,000 tons. Each container can hold a maximum of 14 tons. The space shuttle could take less than two full containers into space. The Super-Orion nuclear external …
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New Scientist Attempts to Serve up Revised Limits to Growth

carnival of nuclear energyNew Scientist Attempts to Serve up Revised Limits to Growth

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January 10, 2012 | Brian Wang |
 
New Scientists has an article about revisiting the prophecies of Boom and Doom from the book Limits to Growth Limits to Growth used the MIT World3 computer model to predict that boom would be followed by bust: a sharp decline …
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computersSplitting hairs on definitions to deny progress and greater potential for exponential progress

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November 18, 2011 | Brian Wang |
 
Alex Knapp at Forbes talks about the example of the limits of airplane speed as an example of real world limits to exponential progress. The speed of rockets continue the speed curve slightly. What made us really fall of the …
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foodSorry Collapsitarians, Doomers and Dystopians a Full Collapse Will Not Happen

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March 26, 2009 | Brian Wang |
 
Collapsitarians are described the Technium. Former President Reagan defined a recession as when your friend lost his job and a depression as when you lost your job. Collapse is when no one has a job; in fact, there are no …
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