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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 9 months ago (34 children)

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 9 months ago (32 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (30 children)

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 9 months ago

@[email protected] I wonder if the lab boys can find a way to convert energy to matter. If so, then you get an infinite iron machine because a portal is an infinite energy machine. If it go brrrrrr fast enough, Johnson might be able to create enough iron to end the sun.

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