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How many pounds of thrust would nuclear propulsion create?

Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 17:00:23 2020 No.11339322 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 17:04:09 No.11339329 Report

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>>11339322
about tree fiddy

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 17:07:07 No.11339335 Report

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$\text{Thrust}=\text{mass flow rate}\times\text{velocity}$

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 17:09:22 No.11339339 Report

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>>11339322
Depends on the size of the unit. NERVA managed about 55k lbs of thrust.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 17:16:17 No.11339357 Report

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>>11339322
between ~0 and a lot depending on the type of nuclear propulsion.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 17:17:08 No.11339361 Report

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as >>11339335 said you need something to push out (and to be lost forever in case of vacuum) in order to move. even if you had endless energy you still face the problem of the very limited propellant. during space race many projects and research was done on nuclear propulsion in space but they all came to the conclusion that it's not a good idea.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 18:11:56 No.11339518 Report

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>>11339322
A shit load.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jan 2020 01:47:22 No.11340838 Report

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if only

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jan 2020 15:00:54 No.11342489 Report

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>>11339322
does not matter because there is a much better way

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