Space, but with explosions and 50s madness 

So you might be familiar with Project Orion, the absolutely WTF proposal to launch spaceships by detonating nuclear bombs behind them and riding the blast

What you might not know is there is video of the scale tests on YouTube. @.@ (with conventional explosions obviously)

youtu.be/Q8Sv5y6iHUM

It's kinda surreal to watch

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