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People and many delicate equipment cannot handle such high G forces. I do wonder how a Hyperloop kind of long tunnel, vacuumed out would be a less-G substitute
by kumarvvr 5y ago
People and many delicate equipment cannot handle such high G forces.
I do wonder how a Hyperloop kind of long tunnel, vacuumed out would be a less-G substitute.
- rgmerk 5y agoArthur C Clarke proposed the idea in 1950 in a paper, and wrote a rather excellent short story about the concept (and a wild escape from a launch failure) called "Maelstrom II". In Clarke's story, the launch system is located on the Moon rather than Earth; the lower escape velocity and lack of atmosphere makes the fictional engineering a lot simpler (and allows the climax of the story, which I won't spoil).
- after_care 5y agoI did the math once, and that vacuum hyperloop would be 10s or 100s of km.
- zem 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
- numpad0 5y agoWhen I was younger those devices were called “mass drivers”. The idea was crude materials would be cut up from moons and asteroids, and launched using maglev rails towards civilization centrals. Or it can also be used for recovery, so long that the landing spacecraft can successfully mate the train. Above is portrayed first, in cases with Sci-Fi novels, then of course something terrible would occur, and the story starts to ramp up. A shivering refugee is found inside, one of containers suspiciously veer off course, the crucial docking latch breaks, etc.