In Portal, using the portal gun to get to the moon is the obvious space travel usage, but I think people are overlooking how it'd let you trivially break the rocket equation. (digipres.club)

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In Portal, using the portal gun to get to the moon is the obvious space travel usage, but I think people are overlooking how it'd let you trivially break the rocket equation.

Hell, you could build a >1g torchship using nothing but the ocean.

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I think - I am a physicist but not a rocket engineer - that a portal wouldn't propel anything.

Putting a portal on the underside of the spaceship and another in the deep ocean just makes the two of those places adjacent. The water would spray into space (and probably immediately freeze) but the reaction force wouldn't be on the ship: there's no water pushing back against it, after all. If there's any reaction force it would be against the ocean.

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