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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One of the cooler parts of Three Body Problem was when they attempted the Orion Project to accelerate a probe to 1% of light speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Project Orion is a bad idea??

Just don't start the nuclear propulsion until you're outside of earths gravity well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Project Orion is a bad idea??

A tricky bit of math to achieve, certainly.