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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 10 months ago (13 children)

@[email protected] Yes, but if everyone built 1g torchships pretty soon there'd be no oceans! Much better to use Jupiter instead: nobody will miss it, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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I seem to recall Jupiter is the reason we only have planet destroying asteroids every half a billion years or so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] planet destroying asteroids are the kind of thing that only civilizations without relativistic impactors have to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] good point!

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