Can I interest you in open-cycle gas core nuclear rocket engine? Perfect for interplanetary travel, take-offs, and landings. Just, you know, only on planets you don't like.
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"An Orion blast-off would be the most spectacular sight ever created by humans."
aug 4, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Best viewed from a convenient neighboring continent.
aug 4, 2025, 10:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Orion pulse engines. When you absolutely, positively must put an Iowa class fast battleship in orbit around Jupiter. Accept no substitutes.
aug 4, 2025, 10:37 pm • 7 0 • view
Wait. I've seen this anime.
aug 5, 2025, 12:01 am • 2 0 • view
better, yet, from the moon.
aug 4, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Onboard the Orion is probably the safest place if you insist on being in the same gravity well. Assuming the shock absorbers hold of course.
aug 4, 2025, 10:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I'll see your rocket engine and raise you a nuclear ramjet airplane.
aug 4, 2025, 11:54 pm • 3 0 • view