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		khafra on Sept 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered Or you can just keep dropping nuclear bombs out the back of your spaceship and blowing them up.

Rhapso on Sept 30, 2010 [–]

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

retube on Sept 30, 2010 | [–]

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propul...

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