Talk:Project Valkyrie

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I have placed the article in the category of Hypothetical Spacecraft.

I do not know why the neutral POV issue came up, as originally I thought I'd simply written a description of the spacecraft, but I've included a few relevant criticisms of the design.

--Somes J (talk) 21:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I have added criticism on it's main selling point because that's where the real issue of the design is. I personally doubt the shield reduction advantage. While a normal configuration design only needs radiation & heat shield in the back and collision shields at the front the Valkyrie needs them in both direction. The normal ship has a single point engine while the Valkyrie has ring engines, hence, random radiation scattering should be slightly larger for the Valkyrie.[1] Mightyname (talk) 23:38, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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notability?

What makes this whole thing notable? You could not begin to count all the wild concepts science fiction writers have "proposed". Should they all have wiki pages?

The entire criticism section appears to be original research by the way. Gjxj (talk) 19:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

It got some news coverage, it is a serious proposal based on actual physics (very hard science fiction, if you want to use that category). --mfb (talk) 04:44, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

what news coverage? Maybe the article just needs more references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjxj (talk • contribs) 11:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Two articles are referenced already, plus a few other references. Google has some more websites discussing it, search for ' "Project Valkyrie" interstellar travel '. --mfb (talk) 22:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I've looked for legitimate sources. I do find it interesting that this "project" isn't notable enough to bear mention on the Charles Pellegrino wiki page. The fellow is an author but he evidently didn't publish a book or paper on the topic.. Gjxj (talk) 01:23, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

It is discussed on his website. It might be discussed in the StarTram book, they discuss a lot of concepts that go beyond it. I don't have the book available to check. --mfb (talk) 10:00, 23 January 2019 (UTC)