Repairing vehicles in the early 1900s - photo

[mklotz]

That sort of stuff wasn't confined to the days of the Model T. Consider the Orion project...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projec...ar_propulsion)

which would propel an interplanetary (and ultimately interstellar) spacecraft by spitting atomic bombs out the rear and detonating them to give the spacecraft a healthy push forward.

Thankfully, the test ban treaty put an end to it before some idiot could actually try it.

[Moldyjim]

Yeah, but project Orion would sure be a sight to see...
From far enough away.

I think this one was scarier,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
It could have happened with the technology available and given the atmosphere at the time.
Humans are frightening.