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I assume because you can use (mini)nuclear explosions in deep space?

• numpad0 4y ago
  Detonation engines has nothing to do with nukes, it’s just a different way of burning fuel, in a detonation mode/regimen/whatever. Which is I suppose more violent and rapid and efficient, but much more finicky compared to conventional combustion method/type/phenomenon. Sort of like ramjet vs scramjet difference. “I guess that’s better, if you think it can be done, I don’t know though” thing.
  • dr_dshiv 4y ago
    But the valuable energy density of nuclear doesn’t have a combustion equivalent, right? Only explosions or slow burns.
    • numpad0 4y ago
      I believe nuclear “explosions” are slow burns too, just a sun in Earth’s atmosphere out of nowhere has to cause explosion-like phenomena, and equivalence with chemical explosion can be established. In vacuum it will be just a molten ball. This one uses continuously happening detonation along a circular path, and has little to do with those.