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> and not come out as human paste This is a hard part (which sounds impossible to me): since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner, you need to get to
by ptero 5y ago
> and not come out as human paste
This is a hard part (which sounds impossible to me): since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner, you need to get to 7900 m/s (even assuming no braking from the atmosphere).
And a = v^2 / r will turn living things into a paste for sane r. :(. I would love to be refuted.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner The payload would have a rocket stage after reaching a certain altitude to further accelerate.
- ptero 5y agoEven if you leave the spinner at "only" 1 km/s and the spinner has a (pretty big) diameter of 2 km, it is 100G.
- m0zg 5y ago> even assuming no braking from the atmosphere "Braking" will commence immediately after exiting the spinner apparatus though. And commence rather unceremoniously. I don't think this is going to carry humans in the foreseeable future.