ZZZ
2012-01-28 21:10:36
Sometimes a relevant technology is killed in its cradle due to generally pusillanimous attitude on the part of a society’s elite. Witness the way old Japan kept out gunmaking techniques from Europe and North America for several centuries, or the way the ancient Chinese failed to follow up on the explorations of Admiral Zheng He. The same thing happened to the United States in the early 1960′s when project Orion was abandoned in favor of the nuclear test ban treaty. Now that would have been the way to travel through space! There’s every reason to believe it would have worked as advertised, also.
