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Elite Dangerous maybe. I play Eve Online a lot but not sure that’s what you’re looking for

Certainly not anytime soon. I could see a space-built ship, like an Aldrin cycler, coming about down the line when we have more established manufacturing infrastructure in space already. The gravity well of earth is something that we are going to eventually have to circumvent, as it’s the single most prohibitively expensive part of space travel.

But we can’t get to that point without multipurpose vehicles like starship, the ships that will establish the infrastructure in space that is needed in order to build something like that in the first place. Colonies, manufacturing, in situ resource utilization, etc. all of that doesn’t happen until starship launches, and hopefully it’s only the first. I’m also excited about the neutron rocket from rocket lab; it’s not as powerful as starship but it is approaching the weight class as a heavy multi purpose vehicle.

Dyson Sphere isn't too hard-core of a simulator but it's a great game!

They wouldn't have time to recognize each other. For one thing specification of course would have killed any living observers on contact with the event horizon, the other thing to consider though is that they'll be moving towards each other faster than the speed of light. If two objects are moving near the speed of light and they happen to be moving in opposite directions then they are moving towards each other at faster than the speed of light.

What this means is they'll never know that each other existed. The closer to the singularity you are the faster you move when you get up to relativistic speeds the slower time moves and the more gravity present the slower time moves. Once you cross the event horizon gravity in the speed of your motion or going to mean that you can't actually ever observe anything in the other side of the black hole.

>Nuclear power is used to generate electricity which in turn powers electric motors.

Not always. Often, a PWR (pressurized water reactor) is used with a closed loop of superheated water that turns water into steam in a heat exchanger in order to directly drive propulsive turbines which are geared directly to the screws.

For example, the USS Tullibee was the first US submarine to use turbo-electric drive like you're thinking of, all of the other nuclear submarines before it used direct drive.

And almost all of the submarines afterwards. The Los Angeles class, for example, has the turbines connected physically to the screw, as does the current Virginia class subs (connected physically to the pumpjet).

In fact, I don't think the US has any nuclear powered ships that use turbo-electric propulsion. I know the Royal Navy does, though.

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You be surprised how much ballistic missiles have in common with rockets..

I can't count anymore the number of discussions I had about why building a giant Mars ship in LEO with Starship will neither be cheaper nor faster than riding Starship to Mars directly.

Dedicated and highly specialised vehicles for every little task seems to be ingrained into most minds. (Honestly I blame the architecture of the Apollo program for this)

And on top of that comes the illogical dismissal of everything SpaceX/Musk, as you said.

It's an uphill battle for something that actually should excite people naturally.

The South Koreans take aliens more serious than N Korea.

That depends on the application. For some applications, nuclear reactors are the best option.

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No mans sky is super fun, i can’t recommend enough. That being said it takes a few hours of play before it really gets going.

It’s not misleading . The man program started with approval in 1992. It took 10 year development to get a person in space. China celebrate it’s anniversary at the start of their programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Manned_Space_Program?wprov=sfti1

Yeah, fringe physics tends to do that

I heard the bot is actually aliens

Can't think of many, maaaayyyybe dyson sphere program but I did not hear much from it.

Space Engineers, while straying off from the realistic space simulator (still good though) can support space elevators, no dyson sphere though.

Y’all just made my brain splode

Or just outright discredit it because of musk.

Never mind spaceX being the most successful, and advanced, launch organization in history. people are blinded by cynicism and hatred, and so often they don’t even realize it themselves

Sadly this thinking still seems to resonate with too few people...

You will find far too often comments on such systems being "wasteful".

This is the real core of the promise of starship. 100 tons to LEO or the moon, that opens up the solar system for cheap.

If you don’t know what it is, by definition it’s a UFO to you.

It’s a ufo coverup bot posting misdirection.

That's sort of misleading, as China's first crewed flight was 2003, 20 years ago. The article references the 1992 adoption of a strategy. That'd be like saying the US crewed spaceflight program started July 29, 1958, at the founding of NASA, or even March 3, 1915, if you consider the founding of NACA.