In Portal, using the portal gun to get to the moon is the obvious space travel usage, but I think people are overlooking how it’d let you trivially break the rocket equation.

Hell, you could build a >1g torchship using nothing but the ocean.

  • Michael Busch@mastodon.online
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    10 months ago

    @foone@digipres.club @nyrath@spacey.space Portal also added more fun ways to break physics by giving Chell the magic inertia-canceling boots.

    Not addressed in the game: What happens when the relative velocity between the ends of a portal is very high and something bigger than a molecule gets dropped through it.