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The idea I heard was to just yeet a counterweight straight into the ground. Their system does not appear to have symmetrical exits though.
by p1mrx 5y ago
The idea I heard was to just yeet a counterweight straight into the ground. Their system does not appear to have symmetrical exits though.
- bagels 5y agoSeems like the simplest solution, throw it in to a hole in the ground.
- jhgb 5y agoIt could work, assuming you can shield yourself from the inevitable explosion once that mass impacts something.
- stevesearer 5y agoMaybe they can redirect the ejected mass away from the launch site with a huge curved underground tube Mythbusters' style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73FFitene58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73FFitene58
- dvdkhlng 5y agoScott Manley talked on youtube about the centrifugal force on the wheel being around 10 thousand g (in the full sized version). So how do you build something that touches a tunnel at hypersonic velocity with many thousand tons of force without disintegrating? It's not like you can just add wheels or skates to your ejected mass (or the tunnel).