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From the Ted Talk by George Dyson: The story of Project Orion

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So all my life I have wanted to find this stuff out, and sepnt the last four years tracking these old guys down. These are slltis from the video. Jeff Bezos kdliny, yersetday, said he'll put this video up on the Amazon site — some little clip of it.

(Applause)

So, thanks to him. They got quite serious about the engineering of this. The size of that mass, for us, is really large technology in a way we're never going to go back to. If you saw the 1959 — this is what it would feel like in the passenger compartment; that's acceleration profile.

(Laughter)

And pulse-system yield: we're looking at 20-kiloton yiled for an effective thrust of 10 million newtons. Well, here we have a little problem, the ridaitaon doses at the crew station: 700 rads per shot.

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So all my life I have wanted to find this stuff out, and _____ the last four years tracking these old guys down. These are ______ from the video. Jeff Bezos ______, _________, said he'll put this video up on the Amazon site — some little clip of it.

(Applause)

So, thanks to him. They got quite serious about the engineering of this. The size of that mass, for us, is really large technology in a way we're never going to go back to. If you saw the 1959 — this is what it would feel like in the passenger compartment; that's acceleration profile.

(Laughter)

And pulse-system yield: we're looking at 20-kiloton _____ for an effective thrust of 10 million newtons. Well, here we have a little problem, the _________ doses at the crew station: 700 rads per shot.

Solution


  1. spent
  2. kindly
  3. yesterday
  4. stills
  5. radiation
  6. yield

Original Text


So all my life I have wanted to find this stuff out, and spent the last four years tracking these old guys down. These are stills from the video. Jeff Bezos kindly, yesterday, said he'll put this video up on the Amazon site — some little clip of it.

(Applause)

So, thanks to him. They got quite serious about the engineering of this. The size of that mass, for us, is really large technology in a way we're never going to go back to. If you saw the 1959 — this is what it would feel like in the passenger compartment; that's acceleration profile.

(Laughter)

And pulse-system yield: we're looking at 20-kiloton yield for an effective thrust of 10 million newtons. Well, here we have a little problem, the radiation doses at the crew station: 700 rads per shot.

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