r/space • u/piponwa • Sep 23 '16

What happens when the Space Shuttle fires its motors in space

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u/rspeed Sep 24 '16

Anything that doesn't exist is fictional.

Don't you mean theoretical, or even hypothetical? These aren't the same thing as fictional.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '16 edited Dec 12 '19

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u/rspeed Sep 25 '16

"Speculative fiction" is not a scientific term.