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2017-10-28 -Land of the Free

UN should impose sanctions on US until it gets rid of nukes: Analyst

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Posted by Fred 2017-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
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#1 Why the heck are they upset about nuclear power in space?

Currently there are ZERO, NONE, NADA nuclear rockets or large reactors in space.

There are a few very small thermal nuke reactors in deep space. So small that they will not even power a decent floodlight. Russia is rumored to have a couple of nuke powered sats but if they do they are only a few watts more than the thermal nukes.

So why are they upset about Nuke Power in Space?

It would be smart to have some nuke power in deep space - Mars and further out could use real reactors for missions and sites. It would be nice to see Project Nerva type engines used for journeys to the further planets and the Ort Cloud as they could make mission transit times more reasonable.

Posted by 3dc 2017-10-28 02:29|| 2017-10-28 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Why the heck are they upset about nuclear power in space?

NERVA
Nobody but USA can build one.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-28 03:16|| 2017-10-28 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Nobody but USA can build one.

Really? Can't have that! Better put the plans on the internet somewhere so the Norks and everyone else can swipe them.

Posted by gorb 2017-10-28 03:18|| 2017-10-28 03:18|| Front Page Top

#4 They still couldn't build it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-28 03:21|| 2017-10-28 03:21|| Front Page Top

#5 This is why Earth is in quarantine.
No one wants your band of "Friendship" contaminating the Universe.

Stay in this Universe and do not piss off the "Heavenly Hosts".

You may see them next week pitching a bitch.

Posted by newc 2017-10-28 04:24|| 2017-10-28 04:24|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Would it be impolite of me to ask who's going to enforce those sanctions when we stop paying the fecking bills at the UN?

Believe me, when the four-star lunches and expense accounts go away, the urge to sanction us will be throttled back considerably.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-10-28 08:00|| 2017-10-28 08:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The US can survive without the UN. The ~~League of Nations~~ UN won't survive without the US.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-28 09:32|| 2017-10-28 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Grom, why do you say that?

The welding techniques required?

Posted by Shipman 2017-10-28 13:02|| 2017-10-28 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I remember reading somewhere that Russians try to build their own, and couldn't.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-28 13:13|| 2017-10-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 ...Would it be impolite of me to ask who's going to enforce those sanctions when we stop paying the fecking bills at the UN?

Well, that is the question, isn't it?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-28 13:20|| 2017-10-28 13:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks like Trump might withdraw from enough of the UN that it doesn't really matter.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-10-28 13:41|| 2017-10-28 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 If it isn't a Security Council resolution, it's not enforceable. And if it were a Security Council resolution, the US would veto it. Probably, if they were smart, would the Russians, British, Chinese and French, so that nobody would get the idea to sanction them.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-10-28 14:25|| 2017-10-28 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Nuclear reactors in space? Well, we have one big hydrogen bomb going off in the sun. Do you want that one shut down, genius?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-10-28 16:30|| 2017-10-28 16:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Really? Perhaps we should impose sanctions on the UN? They pay us $10 trillion a year as a group or anyone failing to meet their payments gets removed from the UN and the surface of the planet. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-10-28 17:33|| 2017-10-28 17:33|| Front Page Top

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