Human Brain EnthusiastSo the NASA administrator announced that in two years from now they’re sending a fission-based spacecraft to Mars to deploy helicopters.
Stefan Eissing@thomasfuchs They are all on hard drugs. It's the only thing that explains it all.
Santiago, né ? 
👾@icing @thomasfuchs Though on crime, hard on drugs !
Andrew Golding@thomasfuchs I think this idea could advance to the point of "what if we did a Three Mile Island all over the atmosphere"
@huronbikes don’t worry, the fallout will only be on brown people in the Caribbean
Z̈oé@thomasfuchs and I’ll be personally launching solar powered helicopters to the Moon in 3 years
Matthew Lyon@thomasfuchs (reading between the lines) ... solar-powered spacecraft deploying drones?
Frank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭@thomasfuchs @icing @huronbikes Where's the joke? 😶 They already did this with the #Ingenuity helicopter that was deployed from #Perseverance rover which is powered by a #RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) which uses energy from "fission reactions".
#NASA #Mars #space #SpaceFlight
Edit: OP blocked me for this. ^ 😂 #mimimi 🤣
#NASA #Mars #space #SpaceFlight
Edit: OP blocked me for this. ^ 😂 #mimimi 🤣
King of Tors@thomasfuchs funny like a clown? Like they're here to amuse us?
Brian Vastag@thomasfuchs Timeline is probably too ambitious but nuclear-electric propulsion for spacecraft has been studied/engineered since the 1950s.
@brianvastag yes and they gave up on it in the 70s :)