[OT] (was: does lack of type declarations make Python unsafe?)

[Aahz]

In article <yyyfzm7dyne.fsf at adams.patriot.net>,
Nick Vargish  <nav at adams.patriot.net> wrote:
>
>NB. A Daedelus type spaceship uses "fusion pulses" for power, some
>    proposals use fusion bombs as a a method of generating the pulses.
>    (One presumes a lot of shielding would be involved, as well as
>    some sort of inertial damping system...)

_Footfall_ refers to that as "Orion" or "Bang bang".  ;-)
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