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- My purpose, and my belief, is that the bombs that killed and maimed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall one day open the skies to man.
- —Freeman Dyson, A Space Traveler’s Manifesto, 1958The nuclear pulse rocket is what you’d get if you hired a 12 year old to get you to Jupiter.
- It works by farting a continuous string of nuclear bombs (at the rate of about one per second) out its back end and riding the ensuing blast waves on a giant shock absorber, like a pogo stick.
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- My purpose, and my belief, is that the bombs that killed and maimed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall one day open the skies to man.
- —Freeman Dyson, A Space Traveler’s Manifesto, 1958The nuclear pulse rocket is what you’d get if you hired a 12 year old to get you to Jupiter.
- It works by farting a continuous string of nuclear bombs (at the rate of about one per second) out its back end and riding the ensuing blast waves on a giant shock absorber, like a pogo stick.
Sources: Substack