/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16061507
Fuck him, we could've had Saturn outposts by 1980 but no, "muh provocation"

>>11329302
JFK being a pussy when the military pitched him Orion, then the Outer Space Treaty happened.
>>11329306
Nut up and launch a hundred orbital battleships already, what are you gay

I want Musk to revive Project Orion.

Travel to Mars on nuclear weapons that were going to be dismantled anyways.

>>2924686
Wouldn't you need more exotic matter than the mass of the entire visible universe and more energy that a direct conversion of Jupiter's mass into usable energy to achieve FTL?

Why fuck about with this theoretical superluminal stuff when we can conquer the galaxy in a less than 1 million years with nuclear pulse propulsion alone?

Is it true that /sci/ has an IRC channel?

Hey /sci/
I know how to use derivatives and definite and indefinite integrals. What else do I need to know (in any field, be it mathematics, physics or anything else) to do calculations regarding nuclear pulse propulsion technologies and solar sails.

Thanks.

Why don't we use nuclear fission for space travel?

Project Orion: why not?

Certainly we have the technology to engineer a material that can withstand regular beatings from nuclear explosives. We can skip this issue of nuclear fallout within the atmosphere by constructing the vessel in Earth orbit, pushing it off with rocketry to a safe distance from the Van Allen belt and then firing up the nuclear pulse drive. With the Cold War a thing of the past and hypothetically a runaway space budget instead of a runaway military budget, we can overcome the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty restrictions and launch five of these things to various points of interest around the solar system, as I don't think it's a reasonable means of interstellar travel.