The Hunt for Red October's Catepillar

jedishrfu · Jan 19, 2018

This article discusses the famed Caterpillar drive from the movie "The Hunt for Red October":

https://www.wired.com/story/the-magnetohydrodynamic-drive-is-realand-you-can-build-one/

Bystander · Jan 19, 2018

Wasn't the premise of the book more a matter of nuclear powered "caterpillars" being efficient enough that one could "throw away" the IR drop, assuming super-conducting magnets of sufficient size?

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