Once upon a time the military said "We want to use nukes and go to Saturn." NASA said "No way."
So the military worked on doing it anyway.
The ship would have been as big as a skyscraper and would literally use thousands of nuclear bombs to propel it on its journey to Saturn.
As it looked more promising, NASA basically said 'lol this looks promising, let us take over from here' and then they canceled the program and tried to destroy it.
But what if they hadn't?
First of all, there were hundreds of hurtles for them to overcome before it would have even been possible. And even if they did, who in their right mind would volunteer to sit on top of a giant rocket that was about to get nuked a couple dozen times?
Still, if they had, it would've no doubt ushered in a new era of space exploration. To hell with the moon, we'd be able to explore our entire solar system in person. The massive spaceships would have been large enough to carry the equipment to build colonies, biodomes, terraforming equipment. They were close to doing it back then, with todays advances we could have probably become quite the spacefaring civilization by now.
Instead we're still stuck on one rock. I guess if we destroy this one there's always - oh wait. This is the only planet we have. Nevermind.
1 comment:
"who in their right mind would volunteer to sit on top of a giant rocket that was about to get nuked a couple dozen times?"
Me... Hell even if it didn't work, who else could have "killed by several nuclear explosions" written on their tombstone, above a grave which a few of my scattered atoms would hopefully settle as they circled around in the atmosphere.
And if it did work? I'm alive, in space, and sitting on a few hundred nukes en route to Saturn, can you think of anything more badass? Maybe if it was a space-dragon and I was playing some sort of guitar solo while making out with Megan Fox, but that's stretching things a bit.
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