• FaceDeer@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    3 months ago

    Nuclear weapons, perhaps. But I still hold out hope that someday nuclear pulse propulsion will find some application. It’s far enough out that current-day treaties probably won’t impact it, but there’s some chicken-and-egg issues - nobody will spend time working on it while treaties forbid it, and treaties won’t be updated to allow it if nobody’s done any work on it.

    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      Nuclear pulse propulsion has no real benefit over continuous thrust designs like NERVA once you get outside of atmosphere. And having a reactor makes it really easy to use it for electrical power too

  • wahming@monyet.cc
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    Weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet. Nuclear weapons don’t really add anything to that, the consequences are pretty much identical.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    3 months ago

    I’ve read several accounts where a UAP appeared near a nuclear missile silo/satellite and the nukes all simultaneously were disabled so I feel a little safer with the suspicion that the aliens will put us on time out if we rock the boat too much.

      • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        There’s a couple in this book I just finished, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record” by Leslie Kean. I read about the satellite occurrence a while ago, I forget where I read it. In the book there’s a couple occurrences at nuclear missile silos.