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Boeing just patented a jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions
The US Patent and Trademark Office approved an application from Boeing for a laser- and nuclear-driven jet engine.
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Nasa once considered a nuclear-bomb-pulse engine for a massive rocket. It would have detonated an atom bomb behind itself like, every second and the blast would provide momentum. Crazy.
Also, engineers once proposed digging irrigation / trade canals with atom bombs. Nothing could have cone wrong, I'm sure!
The future is NOW. This crap is crazy. It reminds me of something Mr. Torgue would say. "NOW YOU'LL FIGHT A GIANT DINOSUAR POWERED BY LAZERS AND NUCLEAR EXPLOOOOSTIONS!" :D haha.
Seriously though. Wow.
This is not an entirely new concept - Project Daedalus examined the possibility of a fusion-pulse driven interstellar spacecraft.
I think I drew the schematic to this in grade school. I should've got a patent.