The George Dyson video from 2002`s TED just went live, describing the Orion Project, a deeply classified space vessel from the Atomic Age. It was nuclear powered. The size of a Marriott hotel and 400 tons. George Dyson`s father worked on it, starting in General Atomic in 1957. Did I mention that scientists from the hydrogen bomb worked on this thing? Why? Because the nukes weren`t used as fuel like they are at Homer Simpson`s workplace. They were hoping to smash the atoms and direct the explosions for 20 megatons of lift!