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Orion really is a joke. Very cool, but it has so many practical problems, including that the more we use space the less we would want it, that it was never happening. NERVA was safer, more reliable, cheaper, generally far more sane and not limited by treaties and it still could never get to the poi...

The idea to take along a mobile base is pretty good. Since there's lots of resources in space and distances make transport expensive, it makes a lot of sense to manufacture supplies in the star system you're operating in if operations take any amount of time. Still the same questions remain about th...

The problem with aircraft carriers in space and any discussion of them is, well, what counts as a fighter or bomber or what have you? Little tiny one man fighters have some obvious problems and may or may not work depending on the setting technology, but everyone would agree we can call an X-Wing a...