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Derived from my 3rd-year Astrophysics project, a 2min animation depicting the flight of an "Orion" vehicle. NOT the modern-day project to send humans to the Moon, oh no. This was a 1950's idea that you could use nuclear bombs as propellant. Interested viewers should read George Dyson's book "Project Orion".

This is by far my most well-known project with 30,000+ hits on NuclearSpace and a similar number on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vKMTYa40A
A higher-quality version (20 mb) may be found here :
www.rhysy.net/Orion/project_orion.avi
It's also appeared on any number of nerdy websites. Some are good, some are full of crap. I have neither the time nor the inclination to go into a rant about why Orion is or isn't a stupid idea - read the book instead.
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