• @PrinceWith999Enemies
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    3610 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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      510 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        410 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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        310 months ago

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

  • @GrymEdm
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    1710 months ago

    I love the ridiculous questions this channel tackles and it was an immediate subscribe. My favorite so far is the baseball-near-lightspeed one.

    • @taiyang
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      710 months ago

      Me too, I had to share it. I actually remember that What If from the blog but that was like a decade ago. It’s even better in video format.

      • @GrymEdm
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        10 months ago

        That video and channel are also fun, but I meant this one from xkcd’s What If channel about a baseball moving at 90% the speed the light:) Hopefully that’s a new one for you because (obviously) I liked it quite a bit.