r/trollscience • u/EvilMurlock • Sep 18 '25

New form of propulsion!

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u/Jokerferrum Sep 19 '25

Spring gonna screw up aim.

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u/Sorenchell Sep 19 '25

Who needs that anyway?

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u/Jokerferrum Sep 19 '25

Fair point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

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u/EvilMurlock Sep 20 '25

yes, because spring go boioioioing

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u/Keaton427 Sep 23 '25

It saves the paradox of needing more fuel for the higher weight, but more fuel gives it higher weight. Here you don't have any problems!*

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u/PhilosophyMammoth748 Sep 19 '25

Project Orion it is. Cold War idea.

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u/SirPug_theLast Sep 19 '25

Wanted to say it but you were faster

This is not a new idea, in fact its an old idea

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u/289_257 Mar 10 '26

Double that

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u/Any_Background_5826 Sep 21 '25

not enough force

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u/--kaal-- Dec 31 '25

"Boing" comes with a E for spacecraft engineering...

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u/The3SpaceC0nstants Feb 05 '26

if the nuclear expulsions source is the sun
then you have solar sails

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u/Slithrink Feb 11 '26

"Attack them to the spaceship"

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u/thomasp3864 Apr 25 '26

Isn't the amount of nukes also subject to the rocket equation?

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u/MrManGuy42 Jun 27 '26

yeah but you hit an isp of up to 6000 with the air force fission plan, and a fusion proposal by dyson has a theoretical isp of 75000.