Submitted 8 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUBRd1O2dU
I feel like the battleship Yamato in the documentary Star Blazers has already demonstrated that it is completely viable to launch a naval vessel into orbit and have it perform with excellence.
Just as a note, though - nukes in space work completely differently than nukes in the atmosphere.
Nukes in space are basically contact weapons. Wave motion guns are far more effective
I think they also have an EMP effect that can damage ship/sat electronics.
But, like the internet, a sub is a series of tubes. You have a big horizontal tube that the people and the engine lives in, and you have vertical ones where the things that blow up cities live.
I mean, there are optional smaller horizontal tubes, but I feel like if you’re going to launch a sub into space it really ought to be one of the big ones. Maybe it’s just a Freudian thing.
They mention that in Red Rising (or one of the following books)
I love the ridiculous questions this channel tackles and it was an immediate subscribe. My favorite so far is the baseball-near-lightspeed one.
Me too, I had to share it. I actually remember that What If from the blog but that was like a decade ago. It’s even better in video format.
That video and channel are also fantastic, but I meant this one from xkcd’s What If channel :)
Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That episode had some of the best jokes in the entire series. “That just raises further questions!”
flicker@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“An albino humping worm!”
“Why do they call it that?”
“Because it doesn’t have any pigment.”
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I really love the mandatory fishing license-bit. Truly a peak Futurama-episode!