[jlmorton]

It's not NASA, the organization, that has released a vetted, reviewed technical paper about this. This article is based on the casual communications of a NASA scientist, who works for EagleWorks, and has been communicating with a community of interested persons via the NasaSpaceFlights.com forums.

Indeed, NASA is annoyed with the continued press from this, and has prohibited any press releases from being released without proper NASA vetting.

The clickbaity online media, however, is more than willing to take a forum posting by a "NASA scientist" as NASA proper.

I have nothing but respect for the work being done by EagleWorks and Paul March, but this is not a NASA communication.