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"If this pipe dream is too remote, why don't we try this even more ridiculous pipe dream?"
by flagrant 6y ago
"If this pipe dream is too remote, why don't we try this even more ridiculous pipe dream?"
- emteycz 6y agoWho said it needs to be soon?
- flagrant 6y agoWhat you've done is taken a hard unsolved problem and replaced it with an even harder unsolved problem, and you think that constitutes solving the problem.
- emteycz 6y agoI didn't solve any problem, I just demonstrated that a faster horse is not the only option even though the article presents it as such. The physics of orbital rings are understood well for many decades; it just costs a lot and the economy is not there yet. It might not get there if nobody said rockets aren't the only option.