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Is there a way to slow down using fusion bombs? Even if you manage to bring thousands of fusion bombs with you? Sounds like this is only a sensible approach for
by mr_mitm 11mo ago
Is there a way to slow down using fusion bombs? Even if you manage to bring thousands of fusion bombs with you? Sounds like this is only a sensible approach for sending probes, which will then zip by their target at huge speeds.
- xavxav 11mo agoyou just need to speed up in the opposite direction by flipping around and firing bombs on the other side.
- ajuc 11mo agoWhich means if we get discovered by an alien probe it will look a lot like getting on the wrong end of a nuclear war. I remember there was a quote from some sci-fi universe that there's "no such thing as an unarmed space ship".
- arethuza 11mo agoI believe that is the "Kzinti Lesson" from Larry Niven: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive." https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedExhaust https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedExhaus...
- froh42 11mo agoIf you can get any kind of spaceship up to speeds to reach other stars within reasonable time - you've got an amazing weapon. Just ram into something at full speed. Ok, if you have enough energy to correct course to aim, only.
- RangerScience 11mo agoIt’s more than twice(1) as easy to make a rocket-propelled bullet than a rocket-propelled vehicle! 1) It’d be exactly twice as easy but for Tsiolkovsky!