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The limits of how far humanity can ever travel - Kurzgesagt
Well just for fun, the math says ~24 days to .1c at a constant 1.5G. Obviously in practice those figures are a nonsense, but you can get there. The Project Orion people thought so, at least.
Then you simply coast for a few decades, turn your ship around, and start throwing the nukes out in front of you to slow down. Hell of a way to make an entrance at your destination.
Interesting. Does that account for the limits of the human body in terms of (long-term) exposure to G-forces from all that acceleration?
I'm sure we could use nukes to propel a craft to very high speeds very quickly, but I'd wager that limiting the acceleration to human tolerance would require that to be spread out over a much longer span of time.
A quick google search suggests that nobody really knows exactly how much we could handle in terms of long-term exposure to acceleration G-forces:
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6154/maximum-survivable-long-term-g-forces
(apparently the highest load we've ever tested on humans is 1.5G for 7 days -- without doing any math I'd wager we'd need a lot faster acceleration than that for a lot longer span of time to get to even 1/10th of c)
The limits of how far humanity can ever travel - Kurzgesagt
It's not quite true to say it would take thousands of years to reach our nearest star. If only people weren't pussies about the small matter of exploding hundreds of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere, we could use technology that existed in the fifties to accelerate spacecraft to as much as a tenth of light speed. Proxima Centauri in a matter of decades, no problem.
There's no reason to actually do that; nothing to be learned, nothing to gain in terms of technology or resource exploitation or potential for the future, but god damn it, it would be cool.
A Revolver That Fires More Than 25 Cartridge Types
Oh yes you could.
I bet you couldn't even get a shotgun shell in there!
A Revolver That Fires More Than 25 Cartridge Types
Video game weapons all already have this adaptation.
A weapon mod that adds a ton of new weapons and ammo types for a game like Fallout 4 would make something like this a pretty handy thing to have.
Every Frame A Painting - Coen Brothers - Shot | Reverse Shot
I'm not certain that "they like to film dialogue from inside the space of the conversation" was one of the first things I noticed about the Coens.
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Only in the sense that, like the jews, SJWs are a menace that must be ruthlessly opposed and ultimately, happily, exterminated.
I hope you don't find that offensive at all.
I don't know you, so I have to ask - is that an intentional hint you're giving us that so-called social justice warriors are really Jew vermin? Because that would be fascinating.
What The Macarena Is Really About
I want all of my clothes to have spikes on them.
California City: The Largest City Never Built
So weird to think of the Mojave as being an actual place.
Why I Can't Show You The H******** S***
We need to get over society's ridiculous killing taboo.
koonnamchok
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*spammer
How "old school" graphics worked.
Respect that cable management.
CGP Grey: NOT the Confederate Flag
Something like this?
We should totally draft a new flag. Change the name of the country.
19 Ways to Not Suck on the Internet
"Censorship is not censorship."
A Message To California From Moby
This is the entire list of factors responsible for the california drought:
Overpopulation.
How to survive in a free falling elevator
Meanwhile in Korea.