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Those aren't legs, they're guy wires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop I said the physics works. The engine
by paledot 6y ago
Those aren't legs, they're guy wires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
I said the physics works. The engineering is a totally different question.
- definetheword 6y ago"I said the physics works. The engineering is a totally different question." So if the engineering is questionable or unrealistic, how is it less fanciful?
- paledot 6y agoIn 50 years or 100 years, there might be a launch loop. There will never be a launch centrifuge, not in 50 or 100 or 1000. Fluid dynamics simply don't allow objects to move that fast at ground level. 0.000000000001 > 0