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To: HangnJudge

Thorium is what’s going to get astronauts to Mars and beyond.


6 posted on 08/13/2011 7:20:13 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

“Thorium is what’s going to get astronauts to Mars and beyond.”

I believe you are confusing it with Dilitium Crystals...


8 posted on 08/13/2011 7:23:57 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: buccaneer81
Thorium is what’s going to get astronauts to Mars and beyond.?

Uranium could have gotten us there in the 1970's. NASA had developed a successful nuclear upper stage engine.

These days they are looking at developing a plasma engine that could get us there in two months.

23 posted on 08/13/2011 7:35:57 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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