• @PrinceWith999Enemies
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    368 months ago

    I feel like the battleship Yamato in the documentary Star Blazers has already demonstrated that it is completely viable to launch a naval vessel into orbit and have it perform with excellence.

    Just as a note, though - nukes in space work completely differently than nukes in the atmosphere.

    • @SkybreakerEngineer
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      58 months ago

      Nukes in space are basically contact weapons. Wave motion guns are far more effective

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        I think they also have an EMP effect that can damage ship/sat electronics.

        But, like the internet, a sub is a series of tubes. You have a big horizontal tube that the people and the engine lives in, and you have vertical ones where the things that blow up cities live.

        I mean, there are optional smaller horizontal tubes, but I feel like if you’re going to launch a sub into space it really ought to be one of the big ones. Maybe it’s just a Freudian thing.

      • LazaroFilm
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        38 months ago

        They mention that in Red Rising (or one of the following books)