ddonuts4@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsionEnglish
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1 year agoSounds risky AF
- If the rocket explodes, nuclear fuel could fall back to earth
- If not de-orbited properly, the nuclear fuel could end up scattered across a country - This already happened… multiple times… in 1973 1977, 1983
- If something goes wrong in orbit, now we have radioactive space junk… numerous accidents have already happened many times
$2500-3500-ish, versus $3500-5k new. Steeper discounts on fully optioned models.
Saved you a click. Looks to me like deprecation is not all that dissimilar to that of optioned out Macbooks.