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7 months agoHow fast do you think to GOP will eat itself in that power vacuum?
How fast do you think to GOP will eat itself in that power vacuum?
“The gang is interned in a North Korean gulag”
I completely agree. It was used in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. I can’t think of many other works that use it.
Others have answered you question about non-directed nuclear blasts in space already. They don’t work the same way as in atmosphere; lack the blast or the thermal heat, etc. Enter the Casaba-Howitzer, a theoretical nuclear shaped charge that shoots a directed plasma stream at near light speed. This idea came about in the 60s along with nuclear blast propulsion.
I remember thinking how weird it was that he called them out on being late due to technical issues.