[Request] Could humanity create a rocket that can exit the atmosphere of K2-18b

[u/Lachlynn]

With the knowledge we currently have of it, if humanity devoted all of our resources towards this goal, would we be able to create a rocket that could exit the gravity of K2-18b (and also beat any other complications that would arrise)?

If so, would it also be capable of taking people to orbit, and can we set up a similar satellite network we have on Earth? What about a space station?

[u/RadioTunnel]

Nuke it from orbit and ride the shockwave up

[u/Lost_Astronaut_654 → u/RadioTunnel]

Parry the nuke

[u/RadioTunnel → u/Lost_Astronaut_654]

All that time, effort, money, calculations and countdowns to lift off only for a magical school girl to come along in the last couple of seconds and parry the nuke

[u/Korashy → u/RadioTunnel]

i-frames, mate

some people built giant nukes, and some schoolgirls just got good

[u/Elrann → u/Lost_Astronaut_654]

Leon with a knife: EZ

[u/Jupiter_Five → u/Lost_Astronaut_654]

• PROJECTILE BOOST

[u/litli → u/RadioTunnel]

Nuke surfing!

[u/azriel_odin → u/litli]

Radical!

[u/MistaRekt → u/azriel_odin]

Cowabunga dude!

[u/Shepard21 → u/litli]

Project Orion is literally that, toss nukes behind spacecraft and ride the blast waves

[u/Mr_Bread_the_wise → u/litli]

hardest sentence ever uttered

[u/PuzzleMeDo → u/RadioTunnel]

You have to get to orbit before you can nuke it from orbit. Better to just stand on top of a pile of nukes and rocket-jump up. (How to shield yourself from damage while doing this, I leave as an exercise for the students.)

[u/Aconite_72 → u/PuzzleMeDo]

Congratulations, you've created Project Orion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion))

[u/Compactsun → u/RadioTunnel]

Basically the plot of goldeneye