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by lostlogin 963 days ago
Yup, it’s scary.

“A moderate-sized nuclear device was estimated, at the time, to produce about 5 or 10 billion horsepower.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...

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George Dyson (Freeman's brother) wrote a book on it that is fantastic reading.
> Freeman's brother

Son. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dyson_(science_historia...

Relatives Sir George Dyson (grandfather) Freeman Dyson (father) Verena Huber-Dyson (mother)[1] Esther Dyson (sister)

My bad; I should have checked. Thank you for the correction!
Finally, the gigahorse.