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I'm an investor in SpinLaunch and am extremely excited about it.

• JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
  How did you invest in it?
  • spoonjim 5y ago
    He's rich.
    • autarch 5y ago
      That does help.
    • ngngngng 5y ago
      How do you do that?
      • jdminhbg 5y ago
        Follow the profile link: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu
        • ngngngng 5y ago
          Haha, I meant become rich. Little joke
• soheil 5y ago
  I wonder how much lower the g forces would come than from 10k if the radius was larger. The high energy particle accelerator at cern comes to mind. It wouldn't need to be vertical either just at a slight tilt since to go to orbit you need to travel horizontally most of the time.
• rklaehn 5y ago
  I don't see how this is viable as an earth launch system. You have all this complexity and payload restrictions, just to go from a two stage launch system to... a two stage launch system. However, I think this technology will be extremely valuable for launching material from the moon. So kudos for investing for this. And I think it will even end up being a profitable investment. Just not for the intended purpose.
• jcims 5y ago
  Awesome! Feels like we're starting to get big ideas again.
• rp1 5y ago
  What prompted you to invest in this team?
• senectus1 5y ago
  just out of interest, do they have a charter that stops them developing or selling to the military?
  • pieix 5y ago
    Why would they when the military is one of the biggest and most reliable funders of space technology?
    • senectus1 5y ago
      kind of my point. I wanted to know if they had explicitly blocked it.
• mkl 5y ago
  I'm having trouble understanding how practical this could be. Do you know what tests they've done to find out what kinds of things can survive the extreme acceleration? Do you know what the force from impacting the atmosphere upon leaving the spin chamber is?