Earth to Mars in 10 Days

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  @BigOaern · 1 year ago (edited)

  "One 4000 ton Orion launch would match the total mass lifted into orbit by all of the Apollo launches". This 'interplanetary' ship had a mass of 4000t, a LEO payload of 1600t, and a moon payload of 1200t. A Saturn V weighed in at 3350t, has a LEO payload of 130t, and a moon payload of 2t. With 13 total Saturn V launches, the total theoretical payloads would be 1690t to LEO and 26t to the moon. It would take 600 Saturn V moon launches to match the payload delivery potential of one single interplanetary Orion ship. That, ladies and gentleman, is bananas.

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  @tommo464 · 1 year ago

  That manhole cover ran so project Orion could fly 😂

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  @keilerbie7469 · 1 year ago

  Yours is actually the first correct animation of the Orion pusher plate I've seen on Youtube; most channels just have the big pistons as the only shock damper and forget the secondary layer to the pusher plate itself.

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  @CitizenSnips314 · 1 year ago

  Forget about nuclear propulsion. The real innovation here is NASA making a reliable drum magazine.

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  @ZarHakkar · 1 year ago

  &quot;Show me Project Orion.&quot;<br>&quot;The real Project Orion.&quot;<br>&quot;...&quot;<br>&quot;Perfection.&quot;

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  @alexlandherr · 1 year ago

  xkcd really had a point about if you zone out long enough any discussion eventually leads to Project Orion…

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  @tylerstryker6353 · 1 year ago

  Nuclear has two faces, a fantastic technology with a bright future to push humanity to greater heights. And a god level power to level civilization to extinction.

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  @randomdude8877 · 1 year ago

  Honestly, vessels like the Orion should be build in space. And then we could launch logistics rockets to the orion to fill it up with the fuel pellets.

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  @galacticalliance4801 · 11 months ago

  ironically this is the most noble use of our nuclear weapons i can think of, would give us easy access to the solar system and potentially allow us to go to other star systems much more easily than other emerging technologies.

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  @Nemoticon · 1 year ago

  The project should be re-visited... a lot has changed since the 1950-60s in technology, understanding and application and the fundamental concept is still a brilliant idea.

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  @MercerWing1 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Saw this in ksp2 trailers, rip game

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  @jimsvideos7201 · 1 year ago

  Suddenly Sea Dragon seems like a sensible, environmentally-sound idea.

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