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Project Orion: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth |
 | | The freewheeling era was over; Taylor's dream of a company of "men of goodwill" exploring the solar system had died. |
| | However, interplanetary space is a very dangerous environment to begin with, being periodically saturated with fast charged particles from solar flares and with extremely energetic cosmic rays occasionally blasting through. |
| | The notion that the bomb debris would form a trail is challenged by the fact that the velocity of most of the debris would exceed solar escape velocity (60). |
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