The meme doesn't fit though, does it? This makes it seem like you can get fuel, engines and nukes into space and could just get people into space by replacing nuclear warheads with people. Not by using nuclear warheads.
Doesn't fit the meme, but it somewhat fits the historical context of the cold war space race: send humans to space so the other side is scared of you replacing them with nukes.
Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA,[1] and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft.
Other Nuclear Rocket: NERVA
Getting hydrogen gas really hot and ready to thrust (giggity) by passing it over a fusion reactor. Really fucking efficient.
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Asetru@feddit.org · 25 pts · 144d
The meme doesn't fit though, does it? This makes it seem like you can get fuel, engines and nukes into space and could just get people into space by replacing nuclear warheads with people. Not by using nuclear warheads.
Inucune@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 144d
The US launched people on repurposed ICBMs
bobo@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 144d
Doesn't fit the meme, but it somewhat fits the historical context of the cold war space race: send humans to space so the other side is scared of you replacing them with nukes.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 22 pts · 144d
https://xkcd.com/2423/
PugJesus@piefed.social · 21 pts · 144d
Explanation: NUKES FOR PEACE
The_Lurker@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 144d
Other Nuclear Rocket: NERVA Getting hydrogen gas really hot and ready to thrust (giggity) by passing it over a fusion reactor. Really fucking efficient.
Mesophar@pawb.social · 3 pts · 144d
That's not what the meme is showing, though. Though, the meme does happen to be somewhat similar to the development of the rockets used....
MBEverding@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 144d
@PugJesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation/_Plumbbob why need to make nuclear explosions in space if you can blast a steel bore cap into space... Loop hole for forbidden nuclear explosions in space.
stickly@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 144d
One time we launched a 900kg steel lid at 6x earth's escape velocity with a nuke. Just do that again with a space ship and we're in business.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 144d
We're going to need more memory foam
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 144d
Project Orion!