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slightwinder
10 months ago
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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competi...
> We had the technology to do it in 44 years 60 years ago:
No, we had not. That was only theoretical work, no real technology, not even a prototype.
m4rtink
10 months ago
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IIRC there were sub-scale test done with chemical explosives. Also Feynman said it should work. :)
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No, we had not. That was only theoretical work, no real technology, not even a prototype.