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[What If?] Would a Submarine Work as a Spaceship? (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I feel like the battleship Yamato in the documentary Star Blazers has already demonstrated that it is completely viable to launch a naval vessel into orbit and have it perform with excellence.

Just as a note, though - nukes in space work completely differently than nukes in the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nukes in space are basically contact weapons. Wave motion guns are far more effective

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think they also have an EMP effect that can damage ship/sat electronics.

But, like the internet, a sub is a series of tubes. You have a big horizontal tube that the people and the engine lives in, and you have vertical ones where the things that blow up cities live.

I mean, there are optional smaller horizontal tubes, but I feel like if you’re going to launch a sub into space it really ought to be one of the big ones. Maybe it’s just a Freudian thing.

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