Quote by James Mahaffey Download Open image ““Nuclear rockets capable of sending a fully equipped colony to Mars in one shot were designed.”” — James Mahaffey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Letter to the tech giants: When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is very likely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Innovators with resources and smartness, are more busy with pompous dreams of colonizing mars, while their own kind suffers on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“YOU PROMISED ME MARS COLONIES, AND ALL I GOT WAS ALL OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE INDEXED AND AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE ON EARTH FOR FREE.” — Kelly Weinersmith Copy Share Image
“You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland? —Anonymous” — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“male workers were thought incapable of sitting still for hours at a time to do anything useful.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“However, in very low doses strychnine can act as a nerve stimulant, and I can see how Bailey, and most likely others, saw it… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“In general, nuclear workers are allowed to absorb 5 rem per year, and civilians are allowed 0.5 rem per year.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“it is correct to remind them of the British Blue Peacock nuclear weapon, in which the batteries were kept warm by two chickens living… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive isotopes.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Seeing the value of publication shown by Röntgen’s disclosure, he wrote three articles for the Electrical Review in 1896 describing what it felt like… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“An arsenic compound is still used to treat promyelocytic leukemia, and the isotope arsenic-74 is used as a radioactive tracer to find tumors.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Ivan Pulyui, a college professor at the University of Vienna from the Ukraine, is sometimes credited with having sold the first x-ray tubes, before… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image