///PATRIOT
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Can't wait to find my Rose and have sex inside a tesla inside the car storage.
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Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel
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Can't wait to find my Rose and have sex inside a tesla inside the car storage.
dr_octagon
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Can't be living with the peasant class, just ask Madam De La Cunt.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I absolutely lost it when they showed a fusion tokamak as the power source of this monstrosity.
Little Mac
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dr_octagon
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Lunch special: Fission chips
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
dr_octagon
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Aurora Borealis? At this altitude, at this time, localized in this hotel?
Yes.
Yes.
StateofMajora
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Nothing could possibly go wrong. 
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
Ever heard of the Hindenburg?Nothing could possibly go wrong.
dr_octagon
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Everyone has seen Breaking Bad, it's all about Better Call Saul now.
dr_octagon
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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///PATRIOT
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same energy.
Elder Legend
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Is this a secret trailer to Final Fantasy 17?
Hawking Radiation
Member
This is hilarious.
Runways have to be miles long to takeoff from and land this thing.
Runways have to be miles long to takeoff from and land this thing.
German Hops
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haxan7
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Pls be real
Torrent of Pork
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You could build an orbital ring with currently existing technology, albeit if you could spare the few trillion dollars.
That is far more believable than this monstrosity.
That is far more believable than this monstrosity.
Doom85
Member
Walt: Say my name.
dr_octagon: …Hindenburg.
Walt: You’re goddamn rig-wait, what did you say?
dr_octagon: Hindenburg.
Walt:
STARSBarry
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ROFL... the amount of pressure on those wings would be incredible especially in any attempted landing due to its mass, see that's the thing, the reason aircraft have lift is because of the way it forces air to create an upward pressure to counter act gravity, this is of course applied to the wings. The issue is that you can only make wings so big before the additional weight of them makes it impossible for any modern material to be structurally strong enough to not have them ripped right off the side of the aircraft. That's why when you increase G's on the airframe the wings are always the first to go and close to the plane, because they have to hold the entire weight of the wing beyond that point + all the forces pushing on it, there is no material currently available to sidestep this issue.
They tried to look into making bigger aircraft back in the day by abusing ground effect since it produces greater lift on a smaller surface area, the issue was the aircraft essentially needed to skim the surface to be effective... so any change In that level surface such as say a wave... or small hill would effectively make the vehicle useless....
They tried to look into making bigger aircraft back in the day by abusing ground effect since it produces greater lift on a smaller surface area, the issue was the aircraft essentially needed to skim the surface to be effective... so any change In that level surface such as say a wave... or small hill would effectively make the vehicle useless....
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chromhound
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Put a crazy pilot and you got yourself a ticking time bomb
newtypepilot
Member
if you think this is something worth investing, I know a Nigerian Prince I'd like you to meet.
InverseAgonist
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This is simply untrue.
J Storrs Hall talks about even larger flying craft in his excellent book, Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past. Of course, being Hall, he talks much about molecular nanotechnology, but the fundamentals of flight are known physics and just require energy which you can extract with conventional fission reactions. There is no physical law saying this can't be designed, it's all regulatory and society being a bunch of pussies.
Indeed, look at this thread of people responding without researching the physics or feasibility and immediately saying it's impossible and posting pictures of the Hindenburg. My disdain looms large on such people.
Hopefully, there are enough people far out on the distribution like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to make this happen this century.
Under Siege 3: Terminal Impact
A luxury nuclear airliner plays host to a G7 meeting over Europe and is hijacked by a rogue Russian special forces unit.
A retired Navy cook serving as part of the airliner crew must team up with the President of the United States to retake the plane before the Russians can use it to crash into New York City and start WW3!
A luxury nuclear airliner plays host to a G7 meeting over Europe and is hijacked by a rogue Russian special forces unit.
A retired Navy cook serving as part of the airliner crew must team up with the President of the United States to retake the plane before the Russians can use it to crash into New York City and start WW3!
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HoodWinked
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the problem is that the experience would be comparable to a sea cruise except just way more expensive and a higher likelihood of catastrophic failure.
maybe if it were some kind of a space cruise there would be a greater novelty.
maybe if it were some kind of a space cruise there would be a greater novelty.
dr_octagon
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ScepticMatt
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ResilientBanana
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We barely have massive boats that stay afloat. I couldn't imagine turbulence on this thing. All that clean nuclear energy will mean sweet sweet death for whomever it lands on for years, not to mention killing everyone on-board.
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gamescoltsfan
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Like mega man legends!!!! Or gundam wing!
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InverseAgonist
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Given your comments, I don't think you *really* understand how boats or nuclear power works.
ResilientBanana
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I mean, Chernobyl and Fukushima may have some words with you considering they're still radioactive. Chernobyl has been radioactive for over 30 years and Fukushima, while still leaking into the ocean, has been radioactive for 11 years. Not to mention there's been quite a few shipwrecks in the past decade in regard to cruise ships.
So sure, I'm the crazy one for considering a nuclear-powered flying cruise ship is a bad idea.
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Spaceman292
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wingsHow is something that big and heavy supposed to fly?
InverseAgonist
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Really? Fukushima is still radioactive? I think you need to do some reading up on environmental levels. Even at the height in 2011, radiation levels of 0.06 mSv/day were the limit recorded. Elon Musk has offered to eat food locally grown. It's all just bullshit.
Chernobyl, as has been repeated to death by multiple sources, was one mistake after another compounded by early reactor designs and bad policies under a communist government.
I work in neuroscience, this would be like looking at people suffering from the side-effects of the first generation antipsychotics years later, which can be horrible to witness, and then not just actively tell people that second and third generation antipsychotics are dangerous, but all of psychiatry is tainted! It's fucking ludicrous. But you are actively doing it.
We have much safer reactor designs today, like the molten salt reactors, they are fail safe and would have never experienced a Fukishima-esque problem. Then there's Thorium designs. Not to mention the improvements in sensor and machine learning in design and control on clean sheet designs of today.
Are nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines and ships also the devil? How many of those have had problems? Do you get a little sign and protest whenever they have a port call near you?
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///PATRIOT
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
And how did that work out?