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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. (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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It would be a very Cave Johnson thing to try to fix global warming by pushing the earth away from the sun.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The only thing more Cave Johnson would be using relativistic weapons to blow up the sun

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The lab boys tell me that if you dump enough iron into a star, it'll turn off. Well, we don't have that much iron on hand, but what if it's moving at 99% the speed of light?
They told me that wouldn't help, but I said pack your bags: We're doing it anyway

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] You just so happened to catch me while I had enough gunk in my throat to have a proper shake at the voice

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