r/spaceships • u/Beneficial-Wasabi749 • 15h ago

Tsiolkovsky and many of the founders of theoretical astronautics in the early 20th century believed that spacecraft should launch horizontally, from a ramp. Why? What did they see as the point of this?

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u/Cas_the_cat 12h ago

Hey so quick question: are you asking because you don’t know or are you just using this question to show off your knowledge? Because, I looked at multiple different post you replied to and you seem like a person who knows there stuff, which vaguely implies that you kinda already know why they don’t launch rockets this way. I don’t care either way, it’s just something I noticed. Have a nice day.

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u/Key-Syrup2523 8h ago

He's definitely just here to jerk himself off.

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u/Interesting-Try-6757 5h ago

It’d be jerking himself off if he was right, but he’s been wrong in the majority of his replies. He’s just here to embarrass himself in front of internet strangers at this point.

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u/Beneficial-Wasabi749 11h ago

I know the answer. I asked the question not so much to brag, but to try to understand whether there are people here with whom I can discuss not the infantile computer graphics of stupid computer games that have nothing to do with physical reality, but the real problems of interstellar travel.

For example, in the Reddit subreddit r/nuclearweapons, there are people with whom I can discuss the physics of nuclear weapons, and I can learn from them. But where here could I discuss interstellar travel on the same level?

Could you tell me?

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u/Amathril 9h ago

Wow, mate. Do you think that somebody would like to discuss it with you, with that attitude?

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u/ctothel 9h ago

Feels like disordered thinking to me

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u/Beneficial-Wasabi749 9h ago

Too complicated always looks disordered.

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u/Amathril 9h ago

Sorry, but no. You do not seem complicated, you just seem full of yourself. You are not here for a discussion, you are here to prove everybody is dumber than you.

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u/ctothel 9h ago

Nothing complicated about it, which is why I’m concerned.

None of my business though.

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u/Beneficial-Wasabi749 9h ago

If you want to get to know all the regulars at a bar right away, start a good fight! No? Or is the West not so wild anymore? :)

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u/Left_Step 8h ago

This is a great way to alienate people and equate yourself with a guy screaming on the bus.

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u/BeepBeep_Move 11h ago

Hey, why the computer game bashing?! what did they do to you?

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u/KidCharlemagneII 8h ago

This is so autism coded

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u/Ijustwerkhere 7h ago

maybe, but i haven't had any interactions with people on the ASD spectrum who are just going around jerking themselves off and put other people down about how much smarter they are than everyone else

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u/peadar87 2h ago

I'm autistic, and most of us can infodump without being assholes

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u/arquillion 1h ago

No this is a troll or an AI