Like what

Oh wait the entire solar system

Is it even possible to create small enough warheads for that? The smallest nuke ever still was 10 tons powerful (enough to destroy a building or two), and it was pushing the limits of critical mass for practical-to-use fissionable material way too much already.

Giannis Pantazis Practical yes that is the limit for fission the idea for the Orion's drive was a tiny atom bomb to make heat and pressure and then the rest hydrogen and helium for fusion.

You think the smallest nuke is that small. The smallest nuclear bombs were in the orion project. Most of the plans are still classified by the US government to prevent terrorists from getting nuclear weapons.

Mr.chang cooler Well they were by size the smallest if you increase size you can use more advanced methods of ignition to scale the yield much better.

SUN SU You can use uranium 233 from thorium which has less dangerous waste projects

I mean, we drive vehicles powered by carefully controlled constant explosions almost every day, so we're not really one to talk.

Me

*we*

that'd be me

ME

chat i dont think there will be orion drives...

+michael boullon Same here!

yup

That's why im here

Same!

I got here from there

Oh being safe isn't being fun

>>but it was not followed up with a real flight test because the thought of flying the damned thing over continental US was too scary Scary, but not just because it was a flying unshielded nuclear reactor (as if that wasn't enough). Pluto's core continuously eroded and spit out minute particles of incredibly radioactive material, essentially poisoning anything it flew over. This was the actual reason the program was cancelled. There was no way to actually test it. Once it started to fly, all you were doing was poisoning more real estate, even if you are doing it over the ocean, the radioactive dust would stay in suspension in the oceans for thousands of years. Pluto was the ultimate doomsday weapon.

It seems that Russia has announced it's building something akin to Project Pluto as a warhead delivery system, as if 2020 needed more horsemen of the apocalypse.

*Jool Scott Manley , you must recreate Randall's Joolmarine!

SuperSMT And launch it strutted to the back of the Orion Spaceplane

These comments are pure gold. Too bad gold probably won't help you survive an atmospheric entry into Jupiter.

+LukeDude759 It'll look really pretty if you're in a submarine falling behind it though.

LukeDude759 Pretty sure gold is a pretty soft metal, but it would be melted butter entering Jupiter's atmosphere... Mmm...melted Jupiter gold butter....

Randall is love, Randall is life

Vensey Ness same here!

Vensey Ness Same, though in full admission to my inner geek, I've already seen this movie.

Vensey Ness It's truly a beautiful thing.

+Vensey Ness Following the same process, I am now sitting at my computer giggling far more than most would likely consider reasonable for a 20 - something male (though those people are wrong, because enjoyment on the scale said process has given me is never unreasonable, and knows no conceptual barriers). And quite possibly the most fun a nuclear detonation (or series of them, in this case) can possibly be--powering a (semi-) fictional device, propelling a fictional airfcraft, flown by an enthusiastic Scottsman.

Solid Banana You mean say 1 bowl of popcorn and watch as their supercooled conducter robot flies to them and gives them their 3D printed popcorn using nutrient packed organic matter covered in specifically grown bacteria to cause taste.

+Solid Banana Just imagine the comments... "Oh, 1080p, we meet again!"

+Tommy59375 "1080p? Was this filmed on a moldy piece of bread?"

Sounds like a Colin furze universe

except 4k is basically over the limit of what your eyes are capable of at best. yeah. granted, GM and implants and what not, but one step at a time, mate

>:)

LETS TELL HIM CrimsonGamer99 !

Nelson Muller Nuclear Pulse in general!

Yah probably will have more saftey features since when the idea was invented

WHAM WHAM WHAM quiet

Underrated

Don't forget there are also fusion bombs and fuel pellets with electric beams concepts for Orion since Fission is very inefficient and dirty like you described in the earlier Orion studies. However, we have not created controlled fusion energy with electron beams or anything else, but anything is possible.

***** You do realise that the amount of radiation this would make is rather..... pathetic compared to the radiation a space fairing ship would have to withstand in space.

Are you suggesting ion engines and better nuclear chemical rockets?

Funding and research would have continued but the "Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" banned testing nuclear detonations so the project had to be stopped. Honestly it was a stupid idea since this would have been an amazing way to get around the solar system.

I doubt the explosion would cause much of an issue, if the flash of the nuclear bomb is close enough to the earths atmisphere to tough it then it may be a problem, but if the flash has the void of space seperating itself and the earth, then the shockwave can't travel to the earth.

Complete with random flashes of light in the portraits that aren't even occurring in all of them with each explosion... It's like a nuclear rave in the cockpit!

Actually, they predicted that getting a rocket to orbit would only create as much pollution as one of the early atomic bomb tests.

Brady Nowlan Shut the fuck up. I'm fucking sick and tired of nobody on this fucking site understanding jokes.

+Brady Nowlan Haha! I think he was referring to how mankind used nukes instead of how they should be used.

+Kerman Guy there wont be a shortage of smartasses anytime soon - especially not on this side of youtube.

I like that channel

***** an i

***** Indeed

Considering the vending machine aspect, I'd fully expect Nuka-Cola labeling on the bomb launcher.

yes

They probably would, but this is a videogame ;)

No, the Orion was actually meant as a launch system. The way Scott used it is basically the way it was planned to be used IRL.

+Nova Solarius a different design of the Orion was meant to use nukes to get into orbit but the final design would use conventional rockets to get into orbit where it would then use the nukes

kelly wilson whitehead Well, that's lame.

this would be way to heavy to get to orbit and it being worth it

Yeah, he once mentioned that he's pushing that phrase as a joke XD At least for that specific video.

There’s a documentary based on that research if you poke around KZfaq featuring interviews with all the principals who were alive 20 years ago. As fun as it is ultimately sad and infuriating to hear all these old men wax poetic about the math and engineering and imagination that went into it.

@@jkholtgreve Thanks for thé recommendation, I found the doc. After 7 years I suppose I’m due to re-up my research on the project.

Yes I answer questions.

Whoa thanks man! Pewdiepie probably doesnt have time to awnser questions!

scott have you heard of vsauce?

Tardi Grade Gaming He replies to comments

Problem is, as you get closer to lightspeed mass dilation means it takes more energy to go faster--you wouldn't be able to maintain 1G. It would actually require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate any object with mass to lightspeed, but you could get pretty darned close.

+Trinzilla Still, that's only about 3.5% of the world's annual GDP. Hell, that's an eighth of the USA's GDP. Point is, if we humans decided we wanted to do it, it's totally possible.

+Trinzilla That is for the most massive/fast of the crafts. Furthermore, think about mining and the possible returns of suddenly being able to send not just one or two astronauts, but entire crews of 500-100 people, scientists, engineers, technicians, soldiers, workers, etc into space, and not just them but their equipment/labs.

LydianLights Because it would cost several trillion dollars, and irradiate the planet when it left....

LydianLights u really did not got what happens whe you use this in the atmosphere? Its like, if u have a fallout in ur city, at next day, every single person is DEAD

TheBalefire meh, radiatiion makes things more interesting anyway i want 3 heads!!

LydianLights Because "nukes are bad!". In truth, the environmental consequences aren't great, but then neither is burning the downright toxic crap that chemical rockets use. Or, for that matter, coal power plants, which release enough uranium into the air that the potential fissionable energy thereof actually exceeds the energy you get from burning the coal. The warheads used would not be big city-buster types, but much smaller, so EMPs would be much less of an issue.

TheBalefire No, the whole point is that pulsedrives are insanely _cheap_ compared to chemical rockets. And no, if the 2000+ nuclear test bombs detonated since 1945 haven't irradiated the planet, then this wouldn't either.

Far better to secure the galaxy's future by nuking every launch sight, and confining our plague to earth.

In sunshine they take the nukes to start an artificial self sustaining fusion reaction becuz the sun has stopped

above 400,000 views at the moment

A generation style colony ship. Yeah, it's not a bad idea, but you once again run into the spam in a can problem. People do not take well to being stuck inside a giant tin can for a hundred years.

***** Yes, but also it was a last resort, they would have to deal with it. They cant get out of it even if they wanted to.

GarageGamer, I'm sorry, but it was never designed to travel light years. It was designed, from the start, as a way to push a lot of mass into orbit and then to rapidly explore the solar system, getting to Saturn in 2-3 months. Interstellar travel was never iamgined as the systems to survive that long were not within the scope of the program. There is a great history of the program written by Freeman Dyson's son 8-10 eyars ago.

tankmodeler Okay thanks for the info! I watched a documentry on it also where it would use the exact same concept of the engine and build a colony in space, off of that idea, it would go and travel one light year in 16 years or so and the full 6 light years to get to the next solar system or the next closest star to hopefully to find another habbital planet to stay on and repopulate to create a new world, The Documenty is called The Orion Effect Its pretty amazing the stuff they talk about and the animations they do in it.

TheGarageGamer98 Although tankmodeler is right in that the original Project Orion was never intended for interstellar travel, more thoughts on the subject came in the following decades. Project Daedalus is one example, although it was planned as a rapid flyby. Project Longshot would achieve an actual orbit around Alpha Centauri using even less hypothetical technology. Project Icarus would also achieve orbit, but in less time and with an entirely different drive system (so I don't really know why I'm listing it as an example). All in all, it seems that nuclear pulse propulsion *could* be scaled up to provide interstellar travel to humans. There's not really a maximum yield of the bombs used or a maximum size of the ship, so at some point, manned interstellar trips would be achievable. Such journeys would take several decades, though, so it might be a lot easier to popsiclize the crew. That would save weight on food, water, and living space; not to mention the original crew would enjoy the fruits of their sacrifices. I don't predict there will be many (if any) interstellar missions, manned or otherwise, launched this century. There will probably be some launched next century. Given the rapid advancement of medical and life-extending technology, it's not unlikely that both you and I will live to see them.

+John Carter You aren't getting hit by that AdBlock bug are you?

+John Carter Have you tried AdBlock Edge? It's a pretty decent fork!

+John Carter yes. How dare people monetize their own content.

What other recourse is left? Don't allow KZfaq to run advertisements on your channel, if downvotes are an issue. I'll not be subjected to an involuntary waste of my time.

+John Carter Then watch another channel. The author has the right to monetize his content. You have the right to piss off.