The original at ted.com is better video quality and without the annoying liveleak watermark.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Absolutely brilliant. *doublepromote

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, February 29th, 2008 2:41pm PST - doublepromote requested by dag.

Hey, it worked in Lucifer's Hammer!

Funded by ARPA, who created the internet, which was born as the ARPANET in the early 70s.

I thought Dyson already had his hands full developing Skynet

*long

Invocations (long) cannot be called by schnitzelboi because schnitzelboi is not privileged - sorry.

I saw a doc on the project of "bombs" being released to explode in sequence beneath a blast shield/saucer, so as to use the blast wave as upwards thrust. theoretically, enough bombs of enough blast, can push really big stuff to orbit. From what i remember of the archival footage, they had this working but I cant remember the specifics. If my memory jogs, i might try to hunt it down.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, Dyson, Thermonuclear, Saturn, Space, Orion' to 'TED, George Dyson, Dyson, Thermonuclear, Saturn, Space, Orion' - edited by kulpims

*talks

Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by calvados.

*dead, it keeps saying it can't play the embed here.

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by gwiz665.

God damnit this is why I used the YT embed int he first place.

TED's own YouTube embed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2QopJbDBs

Awarding rasch187 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.