{"id":181116,"date":"2016-09-25T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/25\/the-stupidest-idea-of-the-year-doesnt-come-from-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:23:00","slug":"the-stupidest-idea-of-the-year-doesnt-come-from-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/25\/the-stupidest-idea-of-the-year-doesnt-come-from-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupidest Idea of the Year Doesn&#8217;t Come From Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that someone doesn&#8217;t know his history, and thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Are+you+ready+for+this++HyperDrive+Aircraft\/article37646.htm\">a nuclear powered hypersonic airliner is somehow a good idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest that a review of the attempts at nuclear aircraft propulsion in the 1950s, including the nearly catastrophic tests on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convair_NB-36H\">NB-36H<\/a>, where there was a (thankfully) minor airborne fire during testing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Could this be the first nuclear powered airliner?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Currently, you would have to sit in a plane for eight or more hours after taking off from London Heathrow airport bound for New York\u2019s J.F.K airport.  Even first class travelling may not be fun in this case. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Imagine if you were told that within three hours someone could rush you over Atlantic Ocean and put you at J.F.K NY in a very comfortable plane as if you were in first class.  Imagine if this were done with a speed of around 2300 mph\/3,682Km\/h.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They article suggests to that once fusion is perfected (magical thinking) it will be all hunky dory.<\/p>\n<p>While the byproducts of Fusion are far more benign than those of fission, this is still an intensely stupid idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that someone doesn&#8217;t know his history, and thinks that a nuclear powered hypersonic airliner is somehow a good idea. I would suggest that a review of the attempts at nuclear aircraft propulsion in the 1950s, including the nearly catastrophic tests on the NB-36H, where there was a (thankfully) minor airborne fire during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[772,873,816],"class_list":["post-181116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-nuclear-power","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}