Private companies find role in developing nuclear power for space travel

[Tagiscom]

https://www.space.com/commercial-nuclear-power-for-faster-space-travel.html

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A soda-can-size fission reactor could propel humans to Mars in just three to four months, she said, about twice as fast as the currently estimated time it could take a chemically propelled ship to carry humans to the Red Planet. 

I know Fluffy bunnies!

[Lanfear63]

9 hours ago, Tagiscom said:

https://www.space.com/commercial-nuclear-power-for-faster-space-travel.html

I know Fluffy bunnies!

You need Plutonium to get to Pluto

[whateverpedia]

12 hours ago, Lanfear63 said:

You need Plutonium to get to Pluto

What does it take to get to Uranus then?

[Lanfear63]

10 hours ago, whateverpedia said:

What does it take to get to Uranus then?

Uranium of course 😉

[whateverpedia]

5 hours ago, Lanfear63 said:

Uranium of course 😉

Interesting. Claude says the best way is to take him out for a meal and a movie.

[Lanfear63]

3 hours ago, whateverpedia said:

Interesting. Claude says the best way is to take him out for a meal and a movie.

Riffle tried that but all he got was one of his "Moons"

[whateverpedia]

1 hour ago, Lanfear63 said:

Riffle tried that but all he got was one of his "Moons"

Riffle was lucky he didn't disappear into a Brown Hole.

[Lanfear63]

5 hours ago, whateverpedia said:

Riffle was lucky he didn't disappear into a Brown Hole.

Yes, Brown Dwarfs are easily sucked in.

[Mike Friedman]

On 6/26/2020 at 7:47 AM, whateverpedia said:

What does it take to get to Uranus then?

About 6 beers.

[Princess Balestra]

tbh I bendin' ovah backwards tryin' to accommodate the science here.

The bigger the mystery an' the greater the potential, for sure you gotta keep all options on the table.

Hey, as a polyholistic bein' I tryin' to elevate the debate.

As I understand it, brown holes transport you halfway to abysmal oblivion, but there are juicier openings elseplace in the Cosmos make it easiah to like sit an' watch TV an' eat dinnah aftah you been travellin'.