Could Atomic Bombs Take Us Above The Sun?

By Insane Curiosity

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There is a spaceship that could fly over the pole of the sun and look down on our own star, something no machine has ever done. It would not crawl there over decades like our probes. It would get there fast, and it could carry a crew, not just a sensor. The wild part is that we are not waiting on some future invention. This machine was designed, tested, and proven to work, and then we buried it, because the way it flies is genuinely terrifying. It does not burn fuel. It rides nuclear bombs. Stay with me, because by the end you are going to have to answer a real question: would you climb aboard a ship that flies by dropping atomic bombs out the back and surfing the explosions? Because that is not science fiction. That was a real American project, with real engineers, real money, and a real working model. It was called Project Orion. We are prisoners of a flat map. Going up is almost impossible. But in the nineteen fifties, a group of brilliant, slightly mad scientists looked at that wa

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