Tim Dodd

That's all rockets are, so...

They actually work better in a vacuum because there's less resistance and you can actually do more expansion out of the nozzle as well.

Yeah.

Well, there's been proposals for like, there's been an Orion, not the Orion spacecraft that we're about to see, but the Orion launch vehicle was that idea to literally drop nuclear bombs.

Yeah.

And then have it just...

Like pogo stick your way into orbit.

Like that was a halfway seriously conceived idea.

I remember that.

There's also been like, there's a company now called Spin Launch that wants to spin up a rocket inside a centrifuge and then yeet it out of the, you know, like spin it up like a catapult basically.

However, it's spinning so fast and it's so big that the rocket itself inside that centrifuge, it's a vacuum.

They had to produce a vacuum so it's not sitting there.

Uh-huh.

It produces 10,000 Gs on the rocket while it's in the centrifuge.

Yeah.

And this is who is doing this?

Spin launch.

They've built a one-third scale demonstrator that was, I believe, 100 meters wide.

Holy smokes, dude.

Is this real or is this AI right here?