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Life Advice / Re: Space colonization[IRL]
« on: October 25, 2009, 07:43:10 am »Hey, isn't there was a project to make a (successful) nuclear-powered rockets?
Can't we just use it on the moon?
Last I checked (and this was quite a while ago), international laws forbid any form of nuclear devices in space. It's technically an arms treaty, but effectively overs any nuclear power source as well.
And the fact that they made the sun illegal is not lost on me either.
I think that, in the long run, collecting He3 and other such gasses that are not common on Earth will make space exploration take off, but that will have to wait for a large shift in our energy generation methods at home.