[JPLeRouzic]

Please finish your novel, it looks very interesting!

> "What if 9/11 was done with a flying Chernobyl?"

I guess it's a PR problem, particularly with the perspective to have dozen of Starship rockets launched every year.

What do people prefer? A rocket that works within reasonable technological limits (a nuclear rocket with chemical first stage) or a monster rocket that works at the edge of what is physically possible (Starship)?

[mytailorisrich]

The issue, politically and for the public, is not so much nuclear for space travel, it's launching it into space, IMHO. I don't think anyone cares too much if you say that you will use nukes to accelerate your spaceship to Mars (as long as they can trust that this is indeed what you are doing) until you say that this means you will need to build those nukes on Earth and, especially, to load them onto rockets to launch them into space because what happens if it crashes or explodes?

[ben_w]

> Please finish your novel, it looks very interesting!

Thanks, I've had similar positive responses from many people… unfortunately, spread over the last decade, because I keep finding it hard to tie all the bits together.

I'm better at world-building than plot, I have discovered.