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I'm too lazy to do the math: Could you use this with gliders for intercontinental travel or would the acceleration kill the passengers?
by guerrilla 5y ago
I'm too lazy to do the math: Could you use this with gliders for intercontinental travel or would the acceleration kill the passengers?
- remus 5y agoFrom the Scott Manley vid on it, the full scale orbital version is doing 10000g at the tip when it's at full speed. I guess if you didn't want to go as far you could lower that but by the time you're at something tolerable to humans I don't think you'd have much energy to play with. You could try significantly increasing the radius to lower the acceleration but I suspect you'd need to get impractically large before you had something that wouldn't kill people.