Magic cruise-ship-sized plane runs on unicorn jism or something
Izzy wizzy let's magic up some non-existent technologies to make our sky cruiser!
Soon you will have the luxury of a shopping mall or cruise ship, but without the chance of leaving when you like or getting any fresh air - all for the low low price of your first born child and a kidney.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 18:02,
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When I had my brain CT scanned, I said “The one thing that could have improved the experience was if it had taken place at 30,000 ft.”
I’ll never get a CT scan on terra firma again.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 18:51,
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“Fusion powered”
Ok, so I’ll expect to see this flying in about 20 years then.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 19:30,
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Jazz-fusion powered
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 22:50,
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To add noise pollution to all of the other issues.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 9:47,
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I prefer to keep my opinion to myself this once
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 19:36,
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I'll freely offer mine.
This is a Because We Can concept, not something useful or necessary, or beneficial to anyone or anything.
A nuclear fusion reactor and an MRI scanner with LCD screens attached to the sides is just scifi for the sake of scifi. Are imaginary fusion reactors that much lighter than actual fission reactors? How often do we expect the MRI scanner to be used? Who is operating it? why don't they deserve radiation shielding?
I see no reason, (other than SAFETY) why you couldn't put a submarine or aircraft carrier style fission reactor on a very large aircraft, if it was a serious concept. It would be great for exploring/exploiting Venus, or the gas giants. Requiring fusion is just an admission of how unlikely this concept is.
The jumbo jet docking with the big vertical shaft at the front section is an utterly suicidal idea. The dock needs to be somewhere else, like, on an aircraft carrier deck, or preferably on the ground at a fucking airport.
The external elevators are cute, but stupidly unsafe. They introduce stupid aerodynamic problems to solve that an internal elevator with a window to the outside simply wouldn't.
Realistically the battery storage would limit the safe operational range of this nuclear deathtrap, because it doesn't look like it's going to glide very far, or land terribly softly, with no engine power. Also I wouldn't expect many countries to be okay with this giant nuclear terrorism magnet in their airspace.
Fuck anyone rich enough to consider paying for this, too.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 20:16,
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An even more radical idea.
Hang it off the moon on a cable.
Because We Can has screwed this world over.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 21:17,
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Lunar skyhooks and space elevators are a lot more plausible (and useful) than this shit!
There are a thousand designs for useful megastructures and giant vessels that would benefit people and the planet. Many could incorporate casinos, restaurants, venues, hotels, etc., without being the fucking point of building them.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 21:46,
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Demonstrating power and wealth with ridiculous follies is the point.
Surely the other stuff is to get someone else to pay for it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 29 Jun 2022, 23:14,
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Fusion reactors aren't filled with tonnes of uranium.
Just for the sake of argument. There's also probably a good engineering why the military never really tried to make a nuclear plane; probably now that we have solar powered drones and satellite imaging there's just no need for a big plane that can stay up for years.
But TBH this just looks like a prototype for the Axiom to me. The way things are going it might not be such a bad idea.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 8:30,
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the US spent a billion dollars trying between 1946 and 1961
clicky
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custard, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 10:21,
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They probably spent just as much on men trying to kill goats with their minds.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 12:53,
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Nuclear propulsion is not the same thing as a nuclear reactor powering electric motors (like in submarines and aircraft carriers).
The main problem with nuclear propulsion is that it spits out radioactive exhaust, poisoning everything in its path. So obviously it was reimagined as a doomsday weapon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
The Americans stopped researching this, because they might be mad but they're not crazy.
The Russians however...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 18:48,
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Did you see the announcement from China about their nuclear propulsion mission to Neptune?
I expect so, but you never know.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 21:16,
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