Promethean Science • Why Empire Fears An American Nuclear Space Program (Astrospheric Man, Part 2)

One technology regime separates a mankind stuck on Earth from a mankind colonizing the solar system: nuclear reactions. And the British establishment doesn't want you to cross that line.

While President Trump's Artemis program pushes America back to the Moon, the most decorated scientific figure of the British establishment responded by declaring human spaceflight a pointless luxury—an "ultra-expensive sport" best "left to billionaires." Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, has spent decades promoting scientific narratives meant to condition you to believe you're in a meaningless cosmos with no reason behind it.

Under President Trump's leadership, Americans aren't accepting that imperial view. A new April 14 National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power lays down the concrete implementation path for a nuclear space program—reactors in orbit by 2028, on the Moon by 2030, and high-power systems through the 2030s.

This is Part 2 of our series on astrophysical man. Part 1: Why the Empire Hates Trump’s Moon Mission

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00:00 Nuclear Fire and Space
01:38 Imperial Attack on Spaceflight
02:58 Who Is Lord Rees
03:48 Fine Tuning and Meaning
05:38 Multiverse as Ideology
06:58 Why Nuclear Changes Everything
07:13 Mars Trip Energy Math
08:35 Specific Impulse Explained
09:24 Fission vs Fusion Propulsion
09:57 Continuous Thrust to Mars
11:34 Empire vs Optimism
12:21 Trump Nuclear Space Agenda
13:02 Implementation Timelines and Reactors
14:15 Astrophysical Man Wrap Up

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