{"id":910,"date":"2006-12-12T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T09:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/snarkin-across-the-universe\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T09:14:21","slug":"snarkin-across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/snarkin-across-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Snarkin&#8217; Across the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monte Davis, of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/thinking_clearly_about_space.php\">Thinking Clearly About Space<\/a>&#8221; has another snarky look at overblown space enthusiasm, providing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-travel.com\/reports\/Which_X_Treme_Spacer_Are_You_999.html\">helpful taxonomy of X-Treme Spacers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Alt.Tech<\/strong><br \/>\nChemical rockets have let you down: after decades of gritty engineering they remain expensive and trouble-prone. It&#8217;s time to start over with a space elevator, deployed by laser launch and magnetic catapult. From the top, nuclear salt-water hotrods will set out to roam the solar system. This team will take the field as soon as a few remaining kinks are worked out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a vaguely related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/12\/science\/space\/12essa.html?ex=1323579600&#038;en=3eb7d9bf1b549078&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">Dennis Overbye questions the need for a Moon base<\/a>. Back when this idea was first floated, I did a few posts arguing that with a bit of work, you can make it look like it&#8217;s not totally idiotic to do the Moon before Mars. Maybe I&#8217;ll Classic Edition those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monte Davis, of &#8220;Thinking Clearly About Space&#8221; has another snarky look at overblown space enthusiasm, providing a helpful taxonomy of X-Treme Spacers: Alt.Tech Chemical rockets have let you down: after decades of gritty engineering they remain expensive and trouble-prone. It&#8217;s time to start over with a space elevator, deployed by laser launch and magnetic catapult.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/snarkin-across-the-universe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snarkin&#8217; Across the Universe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-policy","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}