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12739750 No.12739750 [Reply] [Original]

>blow up h-bombs
>ablate materials from a pusher plate
>push the rocket forward
>1/1000 of the cost of any chemical fuel propulsion

>> No.12739781

>>12739750
>be american
>want to travel space
>blow up nuclear weapons from here to the ayy lmao planet
>we come in peace!

>> No.12739867

>>12739781
I don't see any problem here.

>> No.12739905

>>12739781
Every spacecraft you can imagine is a weapon.

>> No.12740055

>>12739750
Bombs bad

>> No.12740392

>>12739750
>blow up h bombs in space
>destroy nearby satellites and shut down power grids due to the EMP caused by nuclear bombs

>> No.12740546

>>12740392
they're small bombs