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- utopian1
- fuckin' grimes left cooker on the stove again!sted
- Fail. Fail again. Fail better...grafician
- Well, we’re still trying to get to space with 1940’s nazi technology..._niko
- That's also where all our successful rocket technology comes from, dummy.cannonball1978
- we need rockets to escape earth's gravity, no other means of propulsion can do that - for nowgrafician
- until we get a space elevatorhotroddy
- @hot watch Ad Astra for a nice example of thatgrafician
- yeah, that was a cool scenehotroddy
- Poor Goddard, Nazis get all the creditNairn
- Lol my point exactly, there are tons of other theoretical possibilities, a lot cheaper and less dangerous.https://en..._niko
- https://en.m.wikiped…_niko
- Where’s our quantum drives dammit! Lol_niko
- kabooomneverscared
- I believe we'll need/have some sort of EM mass driver fairly 'soon', if only to shoot water into orbit. Water = fuel, hydration, food crops, radiation shieldingNairn
- The prob with non-rocket space systems now is the scale and cost of thusfar unproven tech. They'll make more economic sense if a more developedNairn
- ...space based economy arises - the sort of thing Bezos, to his credit, is envisaging (over Musk's Mars obsession)Nairn
- This happened a couple of years back..
https://www.bloomber…Nairn - And whilst we're 'still using 40s tech to send rockets into space', the current game-changer is Musk's using 21st C tech to get rockets BACK from space :)Nairn
- The problem with mass drivers after proving their viability is that they're essentially weapons platforms with inter-continental reach..Nairn
- also, lol@stedNairn
