Interesting new book

I was amazed by the analysis of the great pyramid as a possible proceeing plant for reactor grade fissionable material. But evidence is not proof, and there is an issue that seems to trump this whole meme.

Fission power is almost ideal for interplanetary propulsion systems (assuming great engineers, strong insurance companies and politicians kept in prison where they belong).

But it is totally inadequate for interstellar propulsion. Even fusion power is on the whimpy side (kind of like the way chemical power is for interplanetary propulsion - it can do the job, but it is ultra slow, very expensive and therefore dangerous as hell).

Antimatter power is needed for for anything more than timid, un-'manned' exploration of the stars. And even then it will take a while to go anywhere.

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So, why would these space aliens be using fission powered vehicles?

(It would be so embarrassing: You drive a WHAT?! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR!)

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We really really need some kind of hyperspace or subspace or warp drive. Sigh.

LB

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<br />I was amazed by the analysis of the great pyramid as a possible proceeing plant for reactor grade fissionable material. But evidence is not proof, and there is an issue that seems to trump this whole meme.

Fission power is almost ideal for interplanetary propulsion systems (assuming great engineers, strong insurance companies and politicians kept in prison where they belong).

But it is totally inadequate for interstellar propulsion. Even fusion power is on the whimpy side (kind of like the way chemical power is for interplanetary propulsion - it can do the job, but it is ultra slow, very expensive and therefore dangerous as hell).

Antimatter power is needed for for anything more than timid, un-'manned' exploration of the stars. And even then it will take a while to go anywhere.

***

So, why would these space aliens be using fission powered vehicles?

(It would be so embarrassing: You drive a WHAT?! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR!)

***

We really really need some kind of hyperspace or subspace or warp drive. Sigh.

LB
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well, as I understand it he wasn't even suggesting the Egyptians were aliens. They were using nuclear power in the pyramid for an earthly purpose. i guess you have to read it - a complex story but it all makes some sort of sense. Mike

We may not be talking about the same article. In the one I read (in the Meta Research Bulletin) the Egyptians were hired laborers and their employers, presumably, needed to refuel their ships.

But if some early humans found a way to produce fissionable material back then (and knew enough to stand a few feet away from it) it did us no good because the tech was lost. Perhaps because they did NOT know enough to stand a few feet away?

Like the first steam turbine in 70 AD. (Another Egyptian invention, by the way.)

But both have been regained. Imagine where we would be if either or both had not been lost.

LB

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<br />We may not be talking about the same article. In the one I read (in the Meta Research Bulletin) the Egyptians were hired laborers and their employers, presumably, needed to refuel their ships.

But if some early humans found a way to produce fissionable material back then (and knew enough to stand a few feet away from it) it did us no good because the tech was lost. Perhaps because they did NOT know enough to stand a few feet away?

Like the first steam turbine in 70 AD. (Another Egyptian invention, by the way.)

But both have been regained. Imagine where we would be if either or both had not been lost.

LB
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />We may not be talking about the same article. In the one I read (in the Meta Research Bulletin) the Egyptians were hired laborers and their employers, presumably, needed to refuel their ships.

But if some early humans found a way to produce fissionable material back then (and knew enough to stand a few feet away from it) it did us no good because the tech was lost. Perhaps because they did NOT know enough to stand a few feet away?

Like the first steam turbine in 70 AD. (Another Egyptian invention, by the way.)

But both have been regained. Imagine where we would be if either or both had not been lost.

LB
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