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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)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 10 months ago

@[email protected] thread a rope with a weight through two vertical portals so the rope is pulled through infinitely as the weight drops.

Now you have infinite rotational energy to run a generator and the thermodynamics police are definitely going to break down your door