Optical Media Survival Plants

Orion was only ever considered as a device for interplanetary travel. Exactly how far would he be kicked away from earth? If it were not for the needs of economists to create global economic models to generate wealth and justify investments in space exploration, the issue of objectives would be irrelevant. However I do not believe such investment will ever be forthcoming to merely send technicians and tourists to Saturn and thereabouts. Not on the scale and design I think the absolute minimum for a good chance at success.

Hence we need a theological change to move man away from his belief in the light speed barrier. A successful Orion "plus tube" propulsion system should aim to eventual speed attempts at the light barrier. Existing fans of Project Orion or "Orioneers" need to "add walls" to "pusher plates" and risk ridicule because of suggesting faster-than-light-travel.

History does not simply repeat itself, rather we use this fear about repeating mistakes to analyze the past and make better preparations for the future. It is useful to compare the gap between 1349 (the Black Death in Europe) and 1492 (the discovery of America). If our world collapses as in 1349, we are going to have to rebuild our space and not sea dockyards this time.

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Therefore one proposed intermediary remedial precaution is the building of hardened shelter Optical Media production plants. They would exist to preserve and distribute human knowledge. That is in the case of unintended non-conventional military escalation following desatellitisation and to any devastating nuclear war prior to the deployment of competitive SDI shields.

Current predictions (with a positive assumption others might derive and publish new digital economic theories independent of my own) are we face a 55% probability of species annihilation via staggered non-conventional escalation but possibly spread across two economic cycles. Without the next "up" wave there is however less probable time remaining. Worse still accepting the fundamental and essential revision of Orion Project to include "physical containment" in outer space is more likely to evolve after loss of American world economic power status. There is however always a hope that America might re-assess some of the current assumptions which stand in the way of the progress in space being pursued as proposed.