Brings up the question.. have nukes ever been in space?

by bonafideB

19 Comments

  1. digitalcurtis on

    Ummm… Until they accidentally nuke the moon, causing the earth to go into complete chaos.

    Unless, the moon really is… weird.

  2. I thought Pioneer or the Voyagers used a fusion engine before launches of such things were banned ….

  3. Qbit_Enjoyer on

    Wow the comments on reddit and twitter make me feel like a nuclear reactor expert ahahaha! 
    I think it’s a good idea and should have been done decades ago, before I was ever born. Even if technology never got better from this moment onwards, we have all the tech today to drive little RC cars remotely and solar arrays and rechargeable battery tech…we should be launching crates of equipment every week since 1980 to prepare for people to colonize the moon. I don’t think politics should stop people from getting the job done, but supposedly that’s the reason.
     A nuclear power plant had better come with an announcement for a magnetic rail launch system to send rocks and resources back to earth! It’s always been my dream to live on the Moon, even if it’s indoors and protein paste forever, I just want to run and run in low gravity and carve out living spaces for future people to live in. Put the reactor on the moon now! Yesterday would have been better!

  4. Henchman_Gamma on

    Its more like a nuclear battery. Same stuff they use on space probes or the russians used in remote areas of siberia.

  5. dingalinglans on

    This administration can barely keep planes and helicopters organised in a safe fashion. Launching nuke material filled transport vessels into space will likely piss off our ‘neighbours’ if what we’ve been told is true about their reticence for nukes, and that’s before the very real risk of them having some form of planet busting catastrophic launch when underfunded NASA goes tits up.

  6. 302-SWEETMAN on

    Feels like ive seen this MOVIE already, an accident inevitably happens & the moon gets cracked in half & earth starts to fall apart & ENDS the world.

  7. The Aristarchus crater on the moon puts out a blue light from time to time. That blue light is in the k-band and associated with fusion reactions.

  8. Transportation Secretary Duffy may propose a nuclear reactor be placed on the Moon but the ETs won’t allow it without the most stringent! safeguards. Humans have a poor track record playing with nukes.

  9. TheGoldenPi11 on

    ETs already seem to have a problem with us meddling in nuclear weapons and power generation here on Earth. I would have to say it’s unwise to be pushing the matter further beyond Earth.

  10. This article is fucking insane. Everything that is implies in this article is crazy. But in a makes sense type of way