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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a great documentary online, on most documentary websites and YouTube, that talks about this project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Not who you asked, but I found this, which might be the one.: https://youtu.be/znmZeEycRwE?si=T0v3FHdJe4oFndgN

It's an hour long and has the BBC logo at the start so it should be decent at least. Not watched it yet, but I will be :-)

[–] dingus182 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That’s not the size of small city.

Edit: apologies. I don’t think that hit quite like it meant to. I’ll delete the offensive part because it doesn’t really sound very nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The biggest design above is the "super" Orion design; at 8 million tons, it could easily be a city.[25] In interviews, the designers contemplated the large ship as a possible interstellar ark. This extreme design could be built with materials and techniques that could be obtained in 1958 or were anticipated to be available shortly after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

[25] Dyson, George (2002). Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-7284-6.