Re: Manned interplanetary travel is IMPOSSIBLE today

Any vehicles? No, you're over generalizing.

You mean to say any vehicles propelled along minimum energy orbits by
chemical rockets.

Other sorts of rockets exist.

For example, nuclear pulse rockets. These rockets propelled by
engineered nuclear explosions - some very tiny compared to A-bombs
we're familiar with - have tremendous potential. We can fly to mars
and back in 90 days, and 4/5 of the payload is sheilding! Part to
protect against cosmic rays and the like, part to protect from the
vehicle's own propulsion system! lol.

So, we know how to build adequate vehicles. We just don't have the
balls to do it!

haha.

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