In Portal, using the portal gun to get to the moon is the obvious space travel usage, but I think people are overlooking how it’d let you trivially break the rocket equation.

Hell, you could build a >1g torchship using nothing but the ocean.

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    9 months ago

    @cstross@wandering.shop (I did think about jupiter more seriously but the problem is that you’d have to build a structure that could withstand the pressures of Jupiter’s atmosphere as it falls into the planet. That’s way harder than something that can survive the earth’s oceans, even if you would get more thrust out of it)