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I don't get the placement of some of the technologies on the chart on page 5. How is pulsed fission being beaten out by both thermal fission and chemical rockets in terms of acceleration, considering for all intents and purposes that's propulsion by nuclear detonation? And continuous fusion is all the way on the right despite being the basis of a torchship?? It all just seems so arbitrary

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