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		froh42 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breakthrough in antimatter production If you can get any kind of spaceship up to speeds to reach other stars within reasonable time - you've got an amazing weapon. Just ram into something at full speed. Ok, if you have enough energy to correct course to aim, only.

RangerScience 19 days ago [–]

It’s more than twice(1) as easy to make a rocket-propelled bullet than a rocket-propelled vehicle!

1) It’d be exactly twice as easy but for Tsiolkovsky!

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