https://youtube.com/watch?v=JtYisD7RqWk
!spacechads this is what they denied us with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Some footage of the testing done in the late 50s. To this date Nuclear Pulse Propulsion is the only form of interstellar travel in a human lifetime that could be achieved using current technology, more feasible to do on a probe though and use the crewed version for fast interplanetary flight.
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The fact that this was never developed proves we're in the lamest timeline
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We won the space race against the Russians but lost the space race against ourselves (and federal spending allocators)
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