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There's a practical argument to be made that acceleration + range control = rocket detonated before it leaves bounds.
But from a physics worst-case perspective, if something can move itself to orbit it can move itself plenty far terrestrially.
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There's a practical argument to be made that acceleration + range control = rocket detonated before it leaves bounds.
But from a physics worst-case perspective, if something can move itself to orbit it can move itself plenty far terrestrially.