Timeline for Mechanically propelled spaceship?
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | The fact that, at most, it uses electricity for a very minor thing (positioning the nuclear charges), not the primary motive force. The propulsion proper is entirely nuclear-thermal. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 5:29 | comment | added | eatthoselemons | What are you referring to with the "It doesn't use electricity for propulsion"? And that is a fair assessment of this answer. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 4:18 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | It doesn't use electricity for propulsion, and it kicks out a very hot, very radioactive, very fast-moving plume of exhaust behind it in pulses. Essentially, it's just an unusual type of rocket, rather than the unique mode the OP describes. | |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 4:13 | history | answered | eatthoselemons | CC BY-SA 3.0 |