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0 pointskhafra15y ago0 comments

Or you can just keep dropping nuclear bombs out the back of your spaceship and blowing them up.

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Rhapso15y ago· 1 in thread

I want to see some math on how fast we could go if we disarmed our militaries and used our nukes as rocket fuel.

back in the 50s there was Project Orion, studying how conventional, explosive nuclear bombs could be used to power inter-stellar spacecraft:

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