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Project Icarus: The Gas Mines of Uranus
Discovery News ^ | 05/31/11 | Adam Crowl

Posted on 06/02/2011 8:35:55 AM PDT by KevinDavis

One might think that fusion propulsion requires some exotic fuel to propel a rocket a million-or-so-times more energetically than standard chemical fuels. However, one fusion fuel option isn't so exotic.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: space; uranus
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1 posted on 06/02/2011 8:35:58 AM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 06/02/2011 8:37:11 AM PDT by KevinDavis (The Birthers have a TMI issue..)
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To: KevinDavis

No laughing at the title, please.


3 posted on 06/02/2011 8:40:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: KevinDavis

That’s a bloated story. PFL.


4 posted on 06/02/2011 8:40:57 AM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: KevinDavis; taraytarah
"the gas mines of uranus" ???

"ya better turn the ship around, captain. there's no tellin' what will happen to the warp drive if we go in there !"

5 posted on 06/02/2011 8:43:45 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: KevinDavis

Well, gas has to have an outlet, and Uranus is made for that sort of thing.


6 posted on 06/02/2011 8:44:40 AM PDT by 60Gunner (Ma'am, that is not a seizure. That is a dance move.)
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To: nuconvert

This should help get more gas from Uranus

7 posted on 06/02/2011 8:45:13 AM PDT by from occupied ga
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To: KevinDavis

Bewteen the Weiner stories and the “Gas Mines of Uranus” it promises to be a BANNER day here at FR.


8 posted on 06/02/2011 8:46:07 AM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: nuconvert
No laughing at the title, please.

Laughing? Is there some humor to be found in Uranus? Help me out here.

9 posted on 06/02/2011 8:46:52 AM PDT by don-o (Tagline was zotted)
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To: WayneS

Thank you. I now have an uncontrollable case of the giggles.


10 posted on 06/02/2011 8:47:45 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
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To: KevinDavis

puleeeeeeez rename that planet


11 posted on 06/02/2011 8:48:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: KevinDavis

I think my Dad used to own stock in the gas mines of Uranus, especially after he ate a heavy meal.


12 posted on 06/02/2011 8:48:44 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: Sacajaweau

How bout we rename it to Urectum?


13 posted on 06/02/2011 8:51:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: kingattax

Not to mention the Klingons they’d find there....


14 posted on 06/02/2011 8:53:45 AM PDT by mikrofon (* OBLIGATORY POST *)
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To: mikrofon

The Klingons are nothing but a bunch of dingleberries!


15 posted on 06/02/2011 8:55:32 AM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: Sacajaweau

Agreed. From now on it’s Myanus.


16 posted on 06/02/2011 8:59:42 AM PDT by don-o (Tagline was zotted)
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To: KevinDavis

Wasn’t this an episode of the Ren and Stimpy Show?


17 posted on 06/02/2011 9:07:49 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: don-o

“From now on it’s Myanus.”

Nothing funny about that


18 posted on 06/02/2011 9:09:47 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Sacajaweau

Not necessary - just pronounce it "URINE-us".

19 posted on 06/02/2011 9:16:32 AM PDT by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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To: nuconvert

I laughed


20 posted on 06/02/2011 9:18:58 AM PDT by don-o (Tagline was zotted)
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