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Project Icarus: The Gas Mines of Uranus
Discovery News ^
 | 05/31/11
 | Adam Crowl
Posted on 06/02/2011 8:35:55 AM PDT by KevinDavis
One might think that fusion propulsion requires some exotic fuel to propel a rocket a million-or-so-times more energetically than standard chemical fuels. However, one fusion fuel option isn't so exotic.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: space; uranus
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:37:11 AM PDT
by 
KevinDavis
(The Birthers have a TMI issue..)
 
To: KevinDavis
    No laughing at the title, please.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:40:34 AM PDT
by 
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
 
To: KevinDavis
    That’s a bloated story. PFL.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:40:57 AM PDT
by 
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
 
To: KevinDavis; taraytarah
    "the gas mines of uranus" ??? 
 "ya better turn the ship around, captain. there's no tellin' what will happen to the warp drive if we go in there !"
 "ya better turn the ship around, captain. there's no tellin' what will happen to the warp drive if we go in there !"
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:43:45 AM PDT
by 
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
 
To: KevinDavis
    Well, gas has to have an outlet, and Uranus is made for that sort of thing.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:44:40 AM PDT
by 
60Gunner
(Ma'am, that is not a seizure. That is a dance move.)
 
To: nuconvert
    
This should help get more gas from Uranus
 
To: KevinDavis
    Bewteen the Weiner stories and the “Gas Mines of Uranus” it promises to be a BANNER day here at FR.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:46:07 AM PDT
by 
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
 
To: nuconvert
    No laughing at the title, please. Laughing? Is there some humor to be found in Uranus? Help me out here.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:46:52 AM PDT
by 
don-o
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To: WayneS
    Thank you. I now have an uncontrollable case of the giggles.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:47:45 AM PDT
by 
hoagy62
(Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
 
To: KevinDavis
    puleeeeeeez rename that planet
 
To: KevinDavis
    I think my Dad used to own stock in the gas mines of Uranus, especially after he ate a heavy meal.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:48:44 AM PDT
by 
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
 
To: Sacajaweau
    How bout we rename it to Urectum?
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:51:33 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
 
To: kingattax
    Not to mention the Klingons they’d find there....
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:53:45 AM PDT
by 
mikrofon
(* OBLIGATORY POST *)
 
To: mikrofon
    The Klingons are nothing but a bunch of dingleberries!
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:55:32 AM PDT
by 
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
 
To: Sacajaweau
    Agreed. From now on it’s Myanus.
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 8:59:42 AM PDT
by 
don-o
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To: KevinDavis
    Wasn’t this an episode of the Ren and Stimpy Show?
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 9:07:49 AM PDT
by 
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
 
To: don-o
    “From now on its Myanus.”
Nothing funny about that
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 9:09:47 AM PDT
by 
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
 
To: Sacajaweau
     Not necessary - just pronounce it "URINE-us".
 
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posted on 
06/02/2011 9:16:32 AM PDT
by 
skeptoid
(The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
 
To: nuconvert
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06/02/2011 9:18:58 AM PDT
by 
don-o
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