dimonium_anonimo t1_j297p18 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 3:48 PM

Reply to comment by Sirhc978 in ELI5 why would we not be able to venture into space using rockets If Earth was 50% larger in diameter? by ShoulderHuge420

Also, I think there's some treaty that says we can't. I mean, I'm just going off of what my high school physics teacher said, but I remember him telling us about a ship that rides the wave of nuclear fission, but it never got to fly because we can't detonate nukes in space or something.

Sirhc978 t1_j2984zp wrote on December 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM

Yeah it is called The Outer Space Treaty. However there is something called a nuclear salt-water rocket which doesn't use explosions.