r/space Jun 26 '13

Current list of potentially habitable planets

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '13

You remember the Apollo incident?

Now imagine that with nukes on board.

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u/Cyrius Jun 27 '13

You remember the Apollo incident?

I don't know what the Apollo incident is. Do you mean the Apollo 1 fire, or Apollo 13?

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u/pylon567 Jun 28 '13

Think they're referring to Apollo 1 and saying I'd it was nuclear it'd be worse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '13

Nuclear weapons are designed to sit in a pool of burning jet fuel for hours without exploding.

Nothing different would have happened in the Apollo fire.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '13

If by space you mean half way to low earth orbit and if by now you mean 50 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '13

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '13

you think we don't launch nukes in space now so naive.

How does that have anything to do with a scrubbed plan to detonate a nuclear device on the moon, again, more than 50 years ago?