Elon Musk's INSANE Nuclear Starship THRILLS scientist's mind

Elon Musk's INSANE Nuclear Starship THRILLS scientist's mind
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The SpaceX CEO has a long-standing vision of establishing a city on the Red Planet. It would be self-sustaining, would be home to one million people, and would transform humanity into a multi-planet species.

"Why are we doing this?" "I think this is an incredibly important thing for the future of life itself ... there's always some chance that something could go wrong on Earth. Dinosaurs are not around anymore!"

But he is facing a big problem that going to Mars will take you five months at the shortest, which to Musk is just too long! That is the reason he has always found a better way to cut the trip to just 100 days or even less!
This kind of rocket absolutely thrills scientists' minds.
So, how does this approach function, and what exactly is it?
Let's expose everything about Elon Musk's INSANE Nuclear Starship in today's episode of the Alpha Tech channel:

If you are planning a trip to Mars, you have better start with how you will cover the vast space between Earth and the Red Planet.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, and the second closest to Earth. But it's definitely farther than you can imagine!
In theory, the closest that Earth and Mars would approach each and Earth is at its farthest. This would put the planets only 54.6 million kilometers apart. Sadly, this has never happened in recorded history.
The two planets are farthest apart when they are both at their farthest from the sun, on opposite sides of the star. At this point, they can be 401 million km apart.

In general, the average distance between Earth and Mars is 225 million km and it would take you around nine months to reach the Red Planet.

What's really scary is the more time you spend in transit the higher the chance of something going wrong.
Space may look like a vast and empty void. But the cosmos teems with invisible, high-energy radiation — particles traveling near light-speed that can pummel human travelers and the surfaces of worlds like tiny bullets.
The whole Mars journey would expose astronauts to about 1,000 millisieverts. This means the first Martian explorers could get roughly eight times the amount of radiation per year of a radiation worker's annual exposure limit. In total, the space travelers would get about one-third of the way toward hitting a NASA astronaut's maximum lifetime exposure limit (2,500-3,250 mSv).

The only way to reduce radiation exposure is to simply get where you are going quicker.
So, to get to the scale intended by Musk, faster transportation is a necessity.
Musk has indicated in the past that he is considering different options for powering spacecraft. For instance, he has tweeted about how nuclear-powered rockets would be a great area of research for NASA.
Elon Musk's INSANE Nuclear Starship THRILLS scientist's mind