• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The medusa drive.

    @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works already talked about Orion - scientists looked at that and said “hey, the blast plate would need to be at least a metre thick. That’s not efficient use of weight. Why don’t we fire the bombs into a super-tough parachute ahead of the ship and let it drag the payload along?”