09-10-2014, 01:24 PM | #171 |
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Re: Space race to Mars in 1979 alternate timeline help, please
Never mind. This is a tangent. Please continue.
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09-11-2014, 03:08 PM | #172 | |
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Re: Space race to Mars in 1979 alternate timeline help, please
Actually no, because of this:
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Hydrogen bombs are developed eventually, but not until later, and can be used by the Orion craft. As well as threaten the world. IMO science is driven as much by personality as any other human endeavor. Especially an expensive engineering project like weapons. Its belaboring the point to point out how Teller marshaled the program, destroying careers and people who got in the way. |
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09-12-2014, 04:49 AM | #173 | |
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Re: Space race to Mars in 1979 alternate timeline help, please
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And as I recall it from the scraps of information we get, the expedition went bad because of conflicts over infidelity, involving one of the two in the marriage of convenience. [Apologies if this is covered later in the thread and I missed it.] |
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09-12-2014, 08:28 AM | #174 |
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Re: Space race to Mars in 1979 alternate timeline help, please
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php...&id=2036#comic
That's how its done! (Unfortunatley does not work with the other atmospheres of this era - should probably need some other major divergence points to make gay space race viable) |
09-12-2014, 11:42 AM | #175 | |
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Re: Space race to Mars in 1979 alternate timeline help, please
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I still think simply sterilizing astronauts shouldn't be seen as impossibly insane. Having children when over 35 is bad anyway, even for males. It might seem more sensible if a time line didn't suffer from Nazis' idiocy with wrong headed eugenic science. We allow couples with known horrible genetic disorders to mate yet not healthy related individuals. It's all irrational defended with pseudoscience. Maybe I should temporarily change my sig. I have the worst cold I have ever had in over 10-15 years. So I'm prone to meandering and babbling. My apologies.
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09-14-2014, 04:04 AM | #176 | |
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Nice. |
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