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Traveling Around Other Worlds

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The YEDDi Living the Ice Caves of Calisto

If you get something to use as propellant, which can literally be anything you can vaporize, gas, ice, rock, or whichever, you can runt a personal vehicle that is essentially the classic syphi spaceship. And i should also know that in a lot of applications, there is nothing preventing you from dragging along a long power cable either. Long cable umbellicls would probably be comm conetia human and their fellow crew members, or various drone assistants,. allowing smaller batteries or airan water tanks in a personal suit. You would still have those as a back up if your cord got severed. So it is premature to rule out personal vehicle size fusion tors.

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