Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:20:51 UTC No. 16102612

a nuclear powered spaceship would be difficult because you
A) have to get the reactor into space (heavy)
and
B) get the people into space with a constant supply of food and water to tend to the reactor
It implies a very large spaceship, which just compounds A, because you'd have to build it in space as its not getting off the ground on nuclear power alone

Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:03:19 UTC No. 16102670

it's fucking easy but the government is compromised by Judeo–Bolshevicks and Nazis (the two ultimate forms of Earthers) determined to keep us chained to this rock and under their control

Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:05:59 UTC No. 16102672

>>16102601
>Is it that hard?
Propulsion in a vacuum is impossible. Space is fake and gay.

Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:07:07 UTC No. 16102675

>>16102612
We can put 200 tons in orbit cheap now. Next step is Lunar factories.

Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:08:43 UTC No. 16102676

>>16102675
>cheap now
not yet, it's still expensive until they really get reuse finagled

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:13:40 UTC No. 16102684

>>>/sci/sfg/

Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:15:12 UTC No. 16102685

>>16102676
It's currently cheap enough even with sacrificing all Starship stages to justify building lunar infrastructure.
We can strip mine the entire moon with zero impact on the biosphere. It's a cash cow sitting there taunting us.

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:43:12 UTC No. 16104084

>>16102672
fuck off you moron

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:41:01 UTC No. 16105349

>>16102601
We are literally launching a nuclear thermal rocket in 2027. USSF-52 is the DRACO demonstration.

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:46:14 UTC No. 16105358

>>>/sci/sfg/

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:47:17 UTC No. 16105359

>>16102672
Buddy if I can manipulate mass by ejecting some of it in a particular direction and it can overcome even earth's gravity then of course it's feasible in microgravity. Throw a fucking wrench in space and you'll have force applied to you in the opposite direction of the wrench. Also the very fact of me throwing the danm thing demonstrates motion vector creation within microgravity in itself. I didn't even need a spaceship to demonstrate motion in space you dumb fuck, just a monkey and a wrench.

Anonymous at Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:51:05 UTC No. 16105367

>>16105359
you loose weight fast in space if you plan to go farther, and want to stop or even return.
isn't it more efficient to carefully accelerate each available fuel atom as much as possible and then eject it? you can use whatever you get from the sun, or some nuclear source.
throwing away atoms at slower speeds is kind of pissing it away