i was reading new scientist a while ago and it was talking about nucler powered rocket but did not want to use it because it could harm life on earth. so why not send it up to space with a normal rocket then blast off from there??:spam: :uhh: :feedback:

If you're talking about the Orion Project, the idea was it was more cost-effective than rockets capable of launching and carrying equal mass (which was a theoretical saving anyway, since such rockets did not exist and still don't).

Would it not have to be a clockwork rocket, due to the emp field generated?

Originally posted by atinymonkey

Would it not have to be a clockwork rocket, due to the emp field generated?

 

Faraday cage.

a faraday cage is great with a earth strap and lower levels of EMR but at those levels of EMR however it would still be useless.

phase cancelation may work though used in conjuction with one, but it will require using some of the nukes power to do it with (50% at optimum) the blast wave would remain uneffected (the bit used for the lift)

We've launched a nuclear powered satellite before. It was called Cassini, carried 72lbs of plutonium fuel, and will arrive at its destination (Saturn) this year, after a journey that started in 1997.

 

In fact, NASA has launched 23 nuclear powered satellites, but none as large as the last one. There's even been a couple of accidents, but the containers of the plutonium didn't rupture.

I think this is about nuclear powered rockets from Earth upwards though, considerably more dangerous

 

the EMR could be nullified with rellative ease, a multi-phasic resonance cavity using the nukes own emp to simultaniosly setup a magnetic dampening feild of the same polarity (not an inverse feild as that would be coerceive) thus nullifying any dangerous EMR aboard the rocket, the farady cage would cover any stray harmonics that escape.

it Would however generate alot of heat, but that aid air expansion and thus lift

that would still leave the problem of chemical "fall out" as the craft arose higher into the atmosphere

 

 

oh well, there`s no system that`s entirely perfect

Guy34life said in post # :

so why not send it up to space with a normal rocket then blast off from there??

 

My post was on topic

dude they all are

 

it`s just that there was an idea proposed to set of little nukes under a craft in time periods to get it into space. kinda like standing on a steel plate and letting off dynamite every few secs until it`s parachute time.

the nuclear power in sats is for the electricity source, not a series of bombs behind it to push it

if ya ask me, I think it`s crazy doing it here on earth, in space as previously posted is a MUCH better idea, but assemble it there in space, not down here!

I think this is what he was talking about originally:

 

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/OrionProj.html

that`s ok, but I was resopnding to the faraday cage idea that was posted as a way to deal with the EMP

I never saw that URL

I meant generally, not in response to you

 

I think that Orion monster could do with a Faraday cage.

a farady cage alone would not suffice, read post #7

Certainly not, but it's probably better off with one rather than without.

as in post #7 you`de need one for stray harmonics

I tell you what, I wouldn't like to be on the command crew of one of those things, much less the engineering staff.

I wouldn`t like to be in the same country at take off!