In memoriam Orion

Des documents inédits du premier projet de vaisseau à propulsion nucléaire pulsée étudié à la fin des années 50 : Orion (!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xeni/tags/projectorion/
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/17/boing_boing_boing_po.html

Une citation de Dyson à méditer :
"In a world where now you can't fly with a bottle of water, we were going to let these physicists fly with 3,000 nuclear bombs. We need to remember the freedom that we've lost. We've become the opposite of what we were trying to be."